South Asia Press is a journalistic video platform that investigates, reports and analyzes stories from the subcontinent, with a focus on Pakistan. It is run by Taha Siddiqui, an award-winning Pakistani journalist living in exile in Paris since 2018.
Mr. Siddiqui moved to France after surviving an abduction and possible assassination attempt on his life in January 2018, allegedly carried out by the Pakistan Army. Read more about it here in the New York Times.
Siddiqui has reported from Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and Europe and has worked for the New York Times, the Guardian, Foreign Policy, Washington Post, France24, the Christian Science Monitor, Al Jazeera, Arte and many other international and regional news organizations. His focus areas include investigating military affairs, human rights and politics.
He also manages a digital platform documenting media censorship in South Asia called safenewsrooms.org which was short-listed by Reporters Without Borders for a Prize for Independence in 2018.
In Paris, Siddiqui teaches journalism at SciencesPo and has co-founded an intellectual space called the DISSIDENT club.
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