User:Zia.haq

Journalist Zia Haq works for the main edition of the Hindustan Times in New Delhi. As a member of a pacy and fast moving section of city news, Haq does special stories on various issues, reviews books, assesses political and civic developments in India’s Capital, and edits reports. Haq also writes for the newspaper’s sought-after Sunday edition, mainly on Muslim affairs. He covered Haj 2006, the supreme religious congregation of Muslims, shuttling between Mecca, Mina, Madina and Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. Since the start of his career in New Delhi, Haq has interviewed a wide range of top names from the world of finance, politics, industry and media. These included the Governor of Virginia, US, Mark J. Warner, Canadian foreign minister James. S. Peterson, Turner Entertainment Networks Asia’s Senior VP Ian Diamond, CNN’s managing director Chris Crammer, former US president Bill Clinton, Kenya-based American wildlife activist Cynthia Moss, Pakistani journalist Shamina Ibrahim, among others. Haq has a keen interest in diverse fields, most notably general medicine and aviation. Haq has extensive journalism experience including posts with The Telegraph in Calcutta, where he wrote on insurgency and governance in India’s Northeast. He has interviewed two successive chief ministers of Assam, each time subjecting them to exhaustive discussions. In 1998, he travelled to India’s border with China, touring frontier Indian army positions along the sensitive international demarcation and wrote several articles from the frontline. Haq, 30, is Indian and was born in Guwahati. He lives with his wife Rupa and their baby daughter in New Delhi.