Aasmah Mir

Aasmah Saira Mir (, born 7 October 1971) is a Scottish television and radio broadcaster and journalist. She co-presented the Monday-Thursday breakfast programme on Times Radio from 2020 to 2025.

Early life and education Mir was born in Glasgow to first-generation Pakistani immigrants, father Arif Mir and mother Almas, from Raiwind on 7 October 1971 and brought up from the age of ten in the affluent suburb of Bearsden, where she attended Bearsden Academy. She graduated from the University of Bristol with an honours law degree in 1993.

Television Mir, whose sister Uzma was already working for BBC Scotland, first appeared in an episode of a 1992 BBC Scotland show called The Insiders presented by Gordon Kennedy. as well as Colour Me White for Radio 4, and Gay Life After Saddam for Radio 5 Live. In 2010 she replaced Anita Anand as a presenter of Radio 5 Live's Drive programme. For one week in March 2012 she sat in for Jeremy Vine on his BBC Radio 2 programme.

On 27 September 2012 Mir announced on Twitter she was leaving BBC 5 Live after 11 years with the station. Mir presented her last 5 Live Drive on 9 November 2012. On 29 October 2012 Mir presented an edition of BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour and for a while replaced Julia Hartley-Brewer on the LBC 97.3 afternoon programme.

From 2012 to 2020 she was a copresenter of BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live.

In April 2020 she was announced as a presenter for Times Radio when the station launched on 29 June 2020. She was to co-present Monday to Thursday breakfast with Stig Abell. In November 2024 she announced she was to leave Times Radio Breakfast in two months and presented her last show on 30th January 2025.

For several weeks in 2025 and 2026, Mir has stood in for Shelagh Fogarty as presenter of the weekday 1pm to 4pm slot on LBC.

Memoir In 2023, she released her memoir A Pebble in the Throat.

Personal life Mir was married to Piara Powar, the executive director of Football Against Racism in Europe. She gave birth to a daughter at the age of 43. In 2021 Mir divorced Powar, stating that "this was my decision so I cannot wallow for too long".

Mir is a fan of Celtic F.C.