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Malik Siraj Akbar | |
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| Born | 9 July 1983 |
| Occupation | Journalism |
| Known for | Journalism Founder of The Baluch Hal |
| Website | http://www.thebaluchhal.com/ |
Malik Siraj Akbar (Urdu: ملک سراج اکبر) is an ethnic Baloch journalist based in the United States. He is the editor-in-chief of the Baluch Hal,[1] the first online English language newspaper of Pakistan's Balochistan Province, Enkaar,[2] a liberal Urdu language news magazine, and a contributing writer for The Huffington Post. He lives in exile[3][4][5] in the United States.
In 2010 to 2011, Akbar was a Hubert Humphrey Fellow at Arizona State University while in 2012, the National Endowment for Democracy (N.E.D), a Washington DC–based organization, awarded him a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellowship where he researched the political assassinations, enforced disappearances and attacks on journalists in Balochistan.[6][7] He was a 2014–15 Edward Mason Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School of Government where he was elected as the Vice President of Communications at the Kennedy School Student Government.[8] He served as the web editor[9] of Kennedy School's student newspaper, the Citizen.[10]
- ^ Baloch Hal, The. "Official Website". The Baloch Hal.
- ^ "Enkaar". Archived from the original on 22 April 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
- ^ Akbar, Malik Siraj (17 November 2011). "Why I Fled Pakistan". CPJ. Committee to Protect Journalists.
- ^ "Pakistani Journalist Explains 'Painful Decision' To Apply For Asylum In U.S. Print Comment Share". Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty. 18 November 2011.
- ^ "Pakistani Journalist Explains 'Painful Decision' To Apply For Asylum In U.S." Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty. 18 November 2011.
- ^ "Humphrey Fellows 2010–2011". Arizona State University Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
- ^ Malik Siraj Akbar (2 May 2012). "Threats to Defenders of Democracy in Balochistan" (PDF). National Endowment for Democracy.
- ^ "malik". malik. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
- ^ Akbar`, Malik Siraj. "o Not Wish For the Collapse of the Chinese Communist Party: Kishore Mahbubani". The Citizen. Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
- ^ "HKS Organizing New Admit Day on Friday – HKS Citizen". www.thehkscitizen.com. Retrieved 6 November 2017.