Taha Siddiqui is a Pakistani-born journalist based in Paris.^[1] He is an active critic of the establishment of Pakistan.^[2]

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Taha Siddiqui
Nationality	Pakistani
Alma mater	Institute of Business Administration, Karachi
Occupation	Journalist
Awards	Albert Londres Prize (2014)

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He is a graduate of Institute of Business Administration, Karachi.^[3] Calling himself an "accidental journalist", he entered the news industry as a financial analyst for CNBC. After joining Geo TV as a business reporter, he took on more mainstream assignments, becoming a reporter at Express TV and a producer for Dunya TV before joining France 24 in 2012. Two years later, he won the Albert Londres Prize, alongside Julien Fouchet and Sylvain Lepetit, for The Polio War, a documentary on the challenges facing polio eradication efforts in Pakistan.^[4]

He is also founder of the SAFE Newsrooms.^[5][6]

In January 2018, in Islamabad, gunmen tried to abduct Siddiqui, but he managed to escape.^[7][8]

Afterwards, he and his family moved to Paris, where they live in exile. In a Washington Post opinion article, Siddiqui stated that a US intelligence agency informed him of plans by the Pakistani military to assassinate him if he ever returned.^[9] In 2020, he opened "The Dissident Club", a bar for exiles and dissidents serving as a refuge and a discussion space. He co-authored an autobiographic bande dessinée graphic novel of the same name that was released in 2023.^[10]

• Albert Londres Prize (2014)