Malik Siraj Akbar

Malik Siraj Akbar is a journalist, blogger and a democracy defender based in Washington DC.
He is a Contributing Writer at the Huffington Post and a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington DC where he is working on threats faced by political leaders, activists, journalists and human rights champions, in Pakistan, particularly in the province of Balochistan.
Malik is the editor of The Baloch Hal, Balochistan's first online English language newspaper. Previously, he was a Hubert Humphrey Fellow at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication of Arizona State University. As a part of the Humphrey Fellowship Program, he served as a visiting journalist at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), a project of Center for Public Integrity, Washington D.C. in 2011. He was a visiting journalist at the Poynter Institute, Florida in June 2011.