Mohsin Raza Naqvi

Syed Mohsin Raza Naqvi (Urdu: سید محسن رضا نقوی; born 28 October 1978) is a Pakistani media mogul who is the owner of City Media Group. He is serving as the outgoing caretaker Chief Minister of Punjab, he assumed office on 22 January 2023. Caretaker Prime Minister and PCB Patron-in-Chief Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar designated Naqvi as a member of the governing board on 22 January 2024, amid reports that the latter would eventually be elected as PCB chairman.

Naqvi was born on 28 October 1978, in the city of Lahore, in the Punjab province and did his primary education at Crescent Model School in Lahore.

He graduated fromGovernment College University (GCU) Lahore and moved to the United States for further studies in media sciences.

He reportedly stayed in the coastal metropolis city of Miami, joined the multinational cable news CNN as a producer, and became the youngest Regional Head of South Asia after returning to Pakistan.

He later founded City Media Group in 2009 with C42 as its first television channel which was later re-branded as City 42. Currently he is running six TV Channels and one newspaper; including 24 News Channel, Rohi Channel for Saraiki Belt and a popular channel of Faisalabad city C41. He has also started Channel 21 from Karachi. His Urdu News Channel C44 is also working in the UK.

Naqvi was one of the two nominees suggested by Hamza Shehbaz, Leader of the Opposition Punjab Assembly for the caretaker chief ministership of the province.The appointment of Naqvi as caretaker CM was later made by Election Commission of Pakistan during a meeting chaired by Chief Election Commissioner, Sikander Sultan Raja after an unusual delay and constant deadlock between the previous provincial government and the opposition over the nominees after the dissolution of the Punjab Assembly.