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Born in Srinagar on October 21, 1966, Haider studied engineering in Chennai, and subsequently studied journalism at Tehran University.
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He is also publisher and editor-in-chief of the Kashmir Observer, a daily newspaper being published from Srinagar since 1996. During the 1990 Gulf War, he covered the conflict for various media outlets including the Tehran Times. He subsequently took up an assignment for National Iranian Radio and Television in New Delhi and moved back to Kashmir in 1994.
He contributed to various international media organizations including British Broadcasting Corporation online, Deutsche Welle and IRIB from Kashmir.
Two years later, he co-founded the daily Kashmir Observer of which he became the chief editors 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 in Dubai and the World Editors Forum in Gothenburg.
His views have been aired internationally by First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Jazeera, the British Broadcasting Corporation, Columbia Broadcasting System, and the Voice of America. He rejoined IRNA as head of the Jammu & Kashmir bureau in 2003.
In 2006, Mr. Haider was awarded the prestigious Chevening Fellowship by Great Britain.
He studied at the Centre for Security & Diplomacy, Birmingham University and undertook extensive study tour of various European institutions including North Atlantic Treaty Organization and European Union Commissions in Belgium, Luxembourg and Ireland. In 2014 Sajjad Haider joined Transport Asia News Service as editor-in-chief Transport Asia News is the first news service from India that provides news and analysis from an Asian perspective to the world.
Coverage area spans from Pacific to Mediterranean.
However special interest areas remain South, East and Central Asia besides Middle East.
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