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Pakistani journalist based in Paris
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Taha Siddiqui
NationalityPakistani
Alma materInstitute of Business Administration, Karachi
OccupationJournalist
AwardsAlbert Londres Prize (2014)

Taha Siddiqui is a Pakistani-born journalist based in Paris. He is an active critic of the establishment of Pakistan.

Early life and career

He is a graduate of Institute of Business Administration, Karachi. Calling himself an "accidental journalist", he entered the news industry as a financial analyst for CNBC. After joining Geo TV as a business reporter, he took on more mainstream assignments, becoming a reporter at Express TV and a producer for Dunya TV before joining France 24 in 2012. Two years later, he won the Albert Londres Prize, alongside Julien Fouchet and Sylvain Lepetit, for The Polio War, a documentary on the challenges facing polio eradication efforts in Pakistan.

He is also founder of the SAFE Newsrooms.

In January 2018, in Islamabad, gunmen tried to abduct Siddiqui, but he managed to escape.

Afterwards, he and his family moved to Paris, where they live in exile. In a Washington Post opinion article, Siddiqui stated that a US intelligence agency informed him of plans by the Pakistani military to assassinate him if he ever returned. In 2020, he opened "The Dissident Club", a bar for exiles and dissidents serving as a refuge and a discussion space. He co-authored an autobiographic bande dessinée graphic novel of the same name that was released in 2023.

Awards

References

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  2. "Pakistan's 'new normal': a journalist on the run from gunmen". The Irish Times.
  3. "IBA Alumnus, Taha Siddiqui, wins the Albert Londres Prize".
  4. Syed, Madeeha (17 May 2014). "The accidental journalist who won the 'French Pulitzer'". Dawn. Retrieved 2024-04-13.
  5. "Taha Siddiqui".
  6. "Taha Siddiqui | al Jazeera News | Today's latest from al Jazeera".
  7. "اسلام آباد سے صحافی طٰحہ صدیقی کے اغوا کی کوشش". BBC News اردو.
  8. "Pakistan is my home. But as a journalist, my life is in danger there | Taha Siddiqui". TheGuardian.com. 5 April 2018.
  9. Siddiqui, Taha (8 January 2019). "Opinion - I'm a journalist who fled Pakistan, but I no longer feel safe in exile". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2024-04-14 – via www.washingtonpost.com.
  10. "From Pakistani 'kill list' to comic book author". France 24. 13 March 2023. Retrieved 2024-04-14.
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