Saiyna Bashir

Islamabad

Freelance Photojournalist at Freelance

Photojournalist based in Pakistan. Contributor to NYT, Reuters and Telegraph among others. Consultant Photographer Unicef. TEDx speaker.

Articles

As Pakistan Moves to Ban Black Magic, Astrologers See a Bad Omen

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Salman Masood |Saiyna Bashir

Asia Pacific|As Pakistan Moves to Ban Black Magic, Astrologers See a Bad Omenhttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/world/asia/pakistan-black-magic.htmlYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. The curtain glows under ceiling lights, and a soft cream-colored screen guards the privacy of clients who slip inside.
As Pakistan Moves to Ban Black Magic, Astrologers See a Bad Omen

1 week ago | nyti.ms | Salman Masood |Saiyna Bashir

The curtain glows under ceiling lights, and a soft cream-colored screen guards the privacy of clients who slip inside. On a glass panel by the door, bold white letters offer quiet assurance: Shahbaz, Astrologer & Palmist. Shahbaz Anjum has worked in Shop 2-A inside the Pearl Continental Hotel in Lahore, Pakistan, for 24 years. He does not advertise. Yet rich and poor, believer and skeptic, come to him for luck, direction, a glimpse behind the veil. “I help people,” Mr. Anjum said. “That’s all.
On Pakistan's Side of Kashmir, Locals Fear They'll Be the First to Face India's Ire

1 month ago | phillytrib.com | Saiyna Bashir

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On Pakistan's Side of Kashmir, Locals Fear They'll Be the First to Face India's Ire

1 month ago | phillytrib.com | Saiyna Bashir

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India Strikes Pakistan but Is Said to Have Lost Aircraft

1 month ago | miamiherald.com | Saiyna Bashir

EDITORS NOTE: EDS: ADDS Pakistan's prime minister as a source in graf "In its own statement ..."; TWEAKS headline; ADDS related stories.); (ART ADV: With photos.); (With: INDIA-PAKISTAN-ALLIES, INDIA-PAKISTAN-TIMELINE); Reporting was contributed by Zia ur-Rehman, Anupreeta Das, Showkat Nanda and Aric Toler.
Artist Salima Hashmi: ‘We added hideaways to contemplate the world in’

2 months ago | ft.com | Saiyna Bashir

Salima Hashmi’s home in Lahore’s upscale Model Town neighbourhood is a large, wood-framed Raj-era bungalow filled to bursting with a...
Defiant, restless road to Pakistan polls: Grand Trunk Road slice most politically charged

Feb 6, 2024 | telegraphindia.com | Christina Goldbaum |Zia Ur Rehman |Saiyna Bashir

The highway is the most politically charged slice of a politically turbulent country. It winds 290km from Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, through the fertile plains of Punjab province to Lahore, the nation’s cultural and political heart. For centuries, it was known only as a sliver of the Grand Trunk Road, Asia’s longest and oldest thoroughfare, linking traders in Central Asia to the Indian subcontinent.
ELECTIONS DISINFORMATION

Jan 9, 2024 | buffalonews.com | Saiyna Bashir

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Climate-linked ills threaten humanity

Sep 9, 2023 | finans.dk | Annie Gowen |Niko Kommenda |Saiyna Bashir

10/09/2023 KL. 10:00 For abonnenter Bagh Yusuf, Pakistan - The floods came, and then the sickness. Muhammad Yaqoob stood on his concrete porch and watched the black, angry water swirl around the acacia trees and rush toward his village last September, the deluge making a sound that was like nothing he had ever heard. "It was like thousands of snakes sighing all Log ind Få adgang til FINANS - Overblik, inspiration og indsigt i dansk og internationalt erhvervsliv.
A New Era of Climate-Linked Disease Threatens Humanity

Sep 5, 2023 | rsn.org | Annie Gowen |Niko Kommenda |Saiyna Bashir

The floods came, and then the sickness. Muhammad Yaqoob stood on his concrete porch and watched the black, angry water swirl around the acacia trees and rush toward his village last September, the deluge making a sound that was like nothing he had ever heard. “It was like thousands of snakes sighing all at once,” he recalled. At first, he thought villagers’ impromptu sandbags, made from rice and fertilizer sacks, had helped save their homes and escape Pakistan’s worst floods on record.