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Saleem Samad
Saleem Samad is
a professional journalist, an Ashoka Fellow for journalism. He has more than
25 years in investigative journalism in South Asia, reporting on conflict
issues and political affairs. He covered the Iran-Iraq and insurgency in
south-east Bangladesh. Until recently he correspondent for the prestigious
TIME magazine, special correspondent for the premier English daily The
Bangladesh Observer, correspondent for Paris based press watchdog Reporter
Sans Frontieres ( Reporters Without Borders ) , a Lahore-based Pakistan’s
prestigious Daily Times , and now defunct Teleka.com, a leading
investigative Indian news portal.
He has presented
research papers at McGill University, Canada; University of London, UK;
Colorado State University, Fort Collins; University of Sydney, Australia;
University of Karachi, Pakistan; and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of
Asian Studies, India.
Through nonviolent means,
The World Sindhi Institute works
relentlessly
for universal human rights and humanitarian law for
the
Sindhis of Sindh, in southeastern Pakistan. |