Born in Quetta, Balochistan in 1978 and schooled at the Karachi Grammar School, Wajahat S. Khan is the first Pakistani Fellow at the Shorenstein Center for the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is a broadcast and online journalist and has produced and anchored for Pakistan’s primary networks: Geo, Dawn, Aaj and Samaa TV. Khan has also edited and written for the Pakistani dailies Dawn, The News and Express Tribune. Extensively embedded with Pakistan’s ground-forces along some of the world’s most isolated borders – investigating the operational and strategic postures of the army – Khan is also the first broadcaster from Pakistan to produce an investigative series from India. A keen experimenter of social media, Khan’s pioneered the use of Facebook and Twitter in Pakistani broadcast. A graduate of the University of Michigan, he has recently been nominated by NATO to cover combat operations in the Taliban-dominated Helmand region of Afghanistan – the first Pakistani to be afforded that privilege.
