Zaka began his career in 2004 as the host of the off-beat music program
On the Fringe, in collaboration with his cousin
Zeeshan Pervez. The show aired on Indus Music and later
MTV Pakistan.
News, Views & Confused On 11 April 2007, Zaka started to host and script a political and social satire show on
AAJ TV. The show
News, Views & Confused was co-hosted by
Nadeem F. Paracha and Mohsin Sayeed, and received significant international attention through
The Washington Post for its programmes during the second emergency declared during
President Musharraf's rule in 2007 amidst a severe clampdown on press freedom. The show ended its run in 2008.
Columnist Zaka is currently a weekly opinion editorial writer for
The Express Tribune, the paper which also brings out the
International Herald Tribune in Pakistan. He used to write as a columnist for the leading Pakistani newspaper,
The News International, where he wrote the weekly political opinion editorial column,
The Pakistan Report Card and the pop culture criticism column titled
His Bigness in the Instep segment of the Sunday edition. He wrote a bi-weekly light humour diary column in the weekly magazine
The Friday Times under the heading, Man Friday. As a writer some of his prominent themes have included bringing back rationality into civil dialogue, political satire, debunking conspiracy theories that affect the national discourse
Radio Zaka headlines one of Pakistan's most listened to radio shows,
The Fasi Zaka and Friends Show, on Pakistan's
FM radio station Radio One FM 91, which is aired nationally. The show is aired three times a week, and is known for its absurdist humour and liberal politics embedded in the jokes.
Do Raaye Zaka returned to television in 2017 alongside Asad Rahim Khan, as coanchor of
Do Raaye on
Dawn News, a
primetime current affairs programme. ==References==