Wakas Mir is a Pakistani-born Norwegian National. He's a Radio Host mostly noted for his hit radio online show called Wakas Mir LIVE and has also been the host for a radio talk show in Oslo

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 called ApniAwaz Radio. There he provided his services as an anchor hosting shows on social issues that revolved around Asians in Norway. Wakas left Apniawaz due to his busy schedule.

Biography

Wakas Mir was born in Lahore

Lahore

Lahore is the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab and the second largest city in the country. With a rich and fabulous history dating back to over a thousand years ago, Lahore is no doubt Pakistan's cultural capital. One of the most densely populated cities in the world, Lahore remains a...

, Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

. He lived in Pakistan until he was 10 years old and then moved to Norway with his mother and grand mother, to his dad. Being artistically inclined right from childhood, he was always drawn towards anything that required artistic skills or a good voice. Having a drive towards achieving the goals he set for himself he worked towards education in Fine Arts and Civics

Civics

Civics is the study of rights and duties of citizenship. In other words, it is the study of government with attention to the role of citizens ― as opposed to external factors ― in the operation and oversight of government....

 in Government College University

Government College University

Government College University, Lahore is a co-educational public university located on The Mall in Lahore, Pakistan...

.

Having studied in the same Govt. College as the famous Pakistan pop star Ali Zafar

Ali Zafar

Ali Zafar is a Pakistani musician, composer, song writer, singer, actor, painter and model, popular in Pakistan for his music, including his hit songs like "Channo", "Rangeen", "Chal Dil Merey", "Dekha", "Masty" and "Sajania"...

. Wakas has on various occasion performed with Ali in college functions. But is more inclined to do Islamic nasheeds rather than songs.

Dabbling in various careers ranging from being a British Gas agent to being a web designer at Dotmusic better known these days as Yahoo music. He finally found that his forte was web designing & currently works as a Project Manager for a Media Company in Oslo, Norway. His interests in the arts also has him honing his skills as a host to the Wakas Mir Live show broadcast through CrazeFM.

Poetic activities

Wakas also explored his interests in poetry & has written hundreds of poems in English, Hindi, Punjabi & Urdu. He writes on a variety of subjects ranging from life to emotions, love, relationships & positivity. One can access his poetry in the various online collections. While his English poems have already been published in a collection, his Urdu poems are now being collected to be published.

Other fields

He has also been quite active when it comes to marketing online. With his marketing skills, he has managed to take the radio station he had launched, CrazeFM, to new heights. The various methods of replicating the radio streams on the biggest Asian portals gained his website, CrazeFM, lots of exposure. His designing skills also came into use in this site. All these that won him the Best and most Popular TV / Radio site

Wakas Mir LIVE - The Liveshow

Wakas normally brings up topics in his shows that cause a stir. He has also interviewed some of the biggest names in the Indian TV industry and dozens of top Bollywood singers and celebrities. Below is a list of the very few of the thousands he has done that were well received.

• Josef Fritzl - Making of the demon - This show was about the guy who made the headline news in May 2008. A talk with Nils Ally made lots of points obvious that the reason behind his "reasoning" was nothing other than what was programmed in Josef since childhood.

• When color is the reason why a marriage stops - This show touched on the widely prevalent problem of color discrimination
  Discrimination
  Discrimination is the prejudicial treatment of an individual based on their membership in a certain group or category. It involves the actual behaviors towards groups such as excluding or restricting members of one group from opportunities that are available to another group. The term began to be...
  
   existing in Asian community

• Marriages in different castes - This show covered how castes are seen as reasons by millions of families that make their children stop on their tracks if they fall in love with someone from a different caste.

• The Halal chicken debate - This one caused a huge stir that made lots of Norwegian Muslims think twice before they purchased chicken that was denoted as Halal
  Halal
  Halal is a term designating any object or an action which is permissible to use or engage in, according to Islamic law. The term is used to designate food seen as permissible according to Islamic law...
  
  

He has also interviewed the top guns of Bollywood

Bollywood

Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

, such as Sunil Shetty, Sonu Nigam

Sonu Nigam

Sonu Nigam is an Indian playback singer whose songs have been featured in numerous Hindi movies, as well as films in Assamese, Punjabi, Bengali, Marathi and Kannada language. He has also released numerous Indi-pop albums and acted in a few Hindi feature films...

, Kumar Sanu

Kumar Sanu

Kumar Sanu Kumar Sanu Kumar Sanu (alias Kedarnath Bhattacharya , born in Kolkata, is a leading Indian Bollywood playback singer. He was awarded the Filmfare Best Male Playback Award over five consecutive years. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri in 2009....

, Babul Supriyo

Babul Supriyo

Babul Supriyo is an Indian playback singer. He calls himself a clone of Kumar Sanu.He was born Supriya Baral, and spent his early childhood, and even graduated from university with that name. He would change his first name's spelling from Supriya to Supriyo as the former signified a female name,...

, Sukhwinder Singh

Sukhwinder Singh

Sukhwinder Singh, Born as Sukhi Singh Lubana is an Indian singer best known for working as Bollywood playback artist. Singh is famous for singing "Chaiyya Chaiyya" for which he won the Best Male Playback Award at the 1999 Filmfare Awards. The song, from Mani Ratnam's 1998 film Dil Se, was composed...

, and many Pakistani celebrities including Abrar ul Haq, Faakhir Mehmood

Faakhir Mehmood

Faakhir Mehmood is a Pakistani singer and music composer. He started out his career in a Pakistani musical group called Awaz. However to conflicts of interest the band split and they all went to become solo artists. The band Awaz also consisted of well known musician Haroon.Faakhir has produced...

 and Haroon from Awaz

Awaz

Awaz were a Pakistani pop band that formed in Karachi in 1992. The group was formed by Haroon Rashid, lead vocalist, who was soon joined by keyboardist Faakhir Mehmood and lead guitarist Asad Ahmed...

 and many Zee TV

Zee TV

Zee TV is an India-based satellite television channel owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, which broadcasts various programmes in Hindi and other regional languages of India. Broadcasting is also present in various nations of South Asia, Europe, the Middle East,...

, Sony Entertainment Television Asia

Sony Entertainment Television Asia

For the version in India, see Sony Entertainment Television .Not to be confused with Sony Entertainment Television , the SET version in Indonesia, Hong Kong and Fiji....

 and Star Plus

STAR Plus

STAR Plus is a Hindi language general entertainment television channel based in India. The channel is part of the STAR TV network's bouquet of channels...

 celebrities, mostly those in the leading roles like Mohammad Iqbal Khan of the 'Angad' Fame Hiten Tejwani

Hiten Tejwani

Hiten Tejwani is an Indian television actor from Mumbai, India.-Early life:Tejwani was born and brought up in Mumbai, to a cloth merchant father and a home maker mother. He has two younger brothers...

 of Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi

Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi

Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi was an Indian Soap Opera that aired on STAR Plus. This is ranked at top, number 1, on the list of STAR Plus top 10 shows of all time.This show was Asia's #1 most watched and awarded show...

, Mona Singh

Mona Singh

Mona Singh is an Indian model and television actress, known for playing the leading role in Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin and winning many celebrity reality shows. She also appeared in a key role in 3 Idiots.-Early life:...

 from Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin, Manav Gohil

Manav Gohil

Manav Gohil is an Indian television actor and anchor. He was one of the presenters in the Indian television show, Fame Gurukul which ended on 20 October 2005...

 TV anchor & actor & many more .

All the shows above can be heard on Wakas Mir LIVE

Achievements along the way

• Initiated a national peace march after the 22 July bombing in Norway - 26 July 2011

• Performed his Islamic Nasheed (Naat) on NRK 1 (Norwegian National TV) - 23 September 2009

• Best and Most Popular TV / Radio Site (CrazeFM.com - 2007) - Websites of India Awards

• Poem "Written in the sky" was selected to be published in the book (Twilight Musings - 2005)

• Performed a patriotic song for Pakistan on Mela 2004 (Group : Devotion). Song was televised world over on Prime World

• Highest achievement in maths and Artist of the year three years in a row - OAS, Oslo American School

The Islamic Radio

He then launched a new venture called The Islamic Radio at http://www.TheIslamicRadio.com to shed some light on the issues that the media twists. His vision is to clear the misconceptions about his religion Islam by inviting scholars from various schools of thought to talk about what today's Muslim is lacking and how he can be a better Muslim.

99.3 FM - Norway

Wakas is currently presenting a program on 99.3 FM which can be heard in Oslo and online. The program focuses on the issues that Muslims and Pakistanis are going through in Norway. Some topics being brought up are quite sensitive and that's what makes the discussions interesting.

Personal life

Wakas lost his mother to cancer in the end of 2009. He got married in the year 2010 and is now residing in Oslo with his family. Wakas closed down his Online Radio station, CrazeFM.com due to some other ventures and lack of time. At the moment of shutting down crazefm it was one of the most visited Asian radios on the web.