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Sajjad Haider
سجاد حيدرانصارى
Born (1966-10-21) October 21, 1966 (age 58)
Srinagar
OccupationJournalist
Notable creditGave Kashmir a local morning daily in English when the news savvy population was dependent on the newspapers coming from New Delhi in the evenings. Awarded prestigious Chevening Fellowship by UK in 2006.
TitleEditor-in-Chief Kashmir Observer

Sajjad Haider سجاد حيدرانصارى (born in October 1966) is a media personality of Indian administered Kashmir who has been in the field of journalism for more than two decades. He is also publisher and editor-in-chief of the Kashmir Observer, a daily newspaper being published from capital Srinagar since 1996.

Early life

Born in Srinagar on October 21, 1966 Sajjad Haider did his engineering from Chennai, and subsequently studied journalism at the Tehran University.

During the 1990 gulf war, he covered the conflict for various media outlets including the Tehran Times. He subsequently took up an assignment for the Iranian Radio and Television in New Delhi and moved back to Kashmir in 1994.

He contributed to various international media organizations including BBC online the DW the voice of Germany and IRIB from Kashmir.

Two years later, he co-founded the daily Kashmir Observer of which he became the chief editor. As an expert on south Asian and middle eastern affairs, he has been invited to scores of global events including the ones organized by the Arab Thought Foundation, Dubai and World Editors Forum, at Gothenburg. Besides his views have been aired internationally including by Al-Jazeera, BBC, CBS, VOA,[1] etc.

He rejoined IRNA as the head of J&K bureau in 2003.

In 2006, Mr. Haider was awarded the prestigious Chevening Fellowship by Great Britain[2].

He studied at the Centre for Security & Diplomacy, Birmingham University and undertook extensive study tour of various European institutions including NATO and EU Commissions in Belgium, Luxembourg and Ireland.

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