Ash-har Quraishi

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Ash-har Quraishi (born 1975) is an award-winning American television journalist. He has served as CNN's bureau chief in Islamabad, and was named in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union against the National Security Agency.

1 Career
2 See also
3 References

[edit] Career

[edit] CNN

Quraishi served as CNN's Islamabad Bureau Chief covering news from across Pakistan - based there within days of the 9/11 attacks. In 2001 At the age of 26 he was CNN's youngest International Bureau Chief. While at the network he reported on political and military tensions between nuclear neighbors India and Pakistan, the hunt for Osama Bin Laden on the volatile Pakistan/Afghanistan border. He covered the 2002 kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal Reporter Daniel Pearl - providing live reports from the port city of Karachi. He was live from the capital of Islamabad minutes after the bombing of a Protestant Church within the diplomatic enclave. Quraishi also covered the 2002 Pakistani elections and was the first western journalist to report the capture of suspected 9/11 planner Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. Following the capture - Quraishi conducted an exclusive one-on-one interview with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. Quraishi was honored by the South Asian Journalists association for his coverage of the 2002 parliamentary elections. In 2004 he was named one of the top 50 South Asian Global Achievers in Mass Media by Triangle Media Group

[edit] NSA Wire Tapping

Quraishi was one of several journalists whose names were listed in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union against the NSA for illegal wiretaps. The ACLU accused the National Security Agency, Central Security Service and Lt. General Keith B. Alexander - Director of the NSA of illegally wiretapping conversations and monitoring e-mails between members of its organization and members of the media - like Quraishi. At the time Quraishi was reporting on a story about "special interest" detainees who had been detained and deported even though they had not been charged with any terrorist related activities.

[edit] KCTV

Quraishi is currently Chief Investigative Reporter for CBS affiliate KCTV based in Kansas City. His reports have resulted in changes in police complaint procedures and changes in recruitment policies for the Missouri National Guard. His report on intimidation inside local police stations earned him a 2007 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative reporting. His investigations have been honored by the Kansas City Press Club. He has also been regional Emmy nominee for feature reporting. Since joining KCTV5 He's exposed sexual predators online, weak sentencing for child pornography convicts, serious security vulnerabilities in airport security and the ability of bad physicians to move from state to state leaving behind serious malpractice histories. Quraishi was investigated by the Transportation Security Administration under the Department of Homeland Security for a series of reports exposing vulnerabilities in aviation security. The TSA investigation was later dropped.