
Saiyna Bashir
@saiyna
Photojournalist based in Pakistan. Contributor to NYT, Reuters and Telegraph among others. Consultant Photographer Unicef. TEDx speaker.
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On today’s front page: the The Washington Post kicks of its series “The Human Limit” about the deadly health consequences of climate change. I reported from Sindh, Pakistan with Saiyna Bashir and Niko Kommenda in London


This is the best reporting on heat and how people exist with it I've ever seen. Give it a scroll. Annie Gowan Saiyna Bashir props No paywall--Check out this gift article, at no cost to you. Read here: wapo.st/3RbS9Rl

There’s no doubt: climate disasters and scientific data confirm we're in a new era of climate-fueled illness. 🤒 Annie Gowen, Niko Kommenda, & Saiyna Bashir overview the evidence in an impressive analysis for The Washington Post. ⏱️ 47 minute #LongRead washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

Pakistan is the epicenter of a new global wave of disease and death linked to climate change, according to a Washington Post analysis of climate data, leading scientific studies, interviews with experts. bit.ly/3ExohHt Annie Gowen Niko Kommenda Saiyna Bashir #ClimateCrisis


📰🗞️What we're reading: How #climatechange is impacting #globalhealth by fueling disease, malnutrition and death. Reporting from Annie Gowan and Saiyna Bashir with the The Washington Post. wapo.st/45I62uV

I, Christina Goldbaum, and Saiyna Bashir traveled along G.T Road, a famed highway in Pakistan’s most heated political battleground, to understand how Pakistanis are feeling before #PakistanElection. Our dispatch nytimes.com/2024/02/05/wor…

In Pakistan’s elections, the PMLN look set to be the biggest party, thanks to support from the army & a crackdown on the PTI Spoke to senior politician Engr. Khurram Dastgir-Khan “You’ve played this game before & know how it ends, in a couple of years time the military will push you out?”

Women’s rights are human rights & art is a powerful way to show this. If you’re at United Nations NY for #CSW68, please visit our exhibit celebrating women’s health and comprehensive abortion care, with photos from Uma Bista, Saiyna Bashir, Hickmatu Leigh & Maria Gutu.


A deeply moving night listening to Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s lost album, “Chain of Light”. Incredible seeing the painstaking work by Real World Records to restore these incredible qawwalis, 34 years after their recording, beautifully documented by Saiyna Bashir, supported by British Council Pakistan


The Manchester preview of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan the late Us. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s “lost album” from the ‘90s “Chain of Light” uncovered by Real World Records last night was pure magic. Paired with an upcoming documentary on his life by Zakir Thaver Saiyna Bashir British Council Pakistan Fatima Mullick


Because even the smallest connection to the late great Us Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan must be cherished. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Saiyna Bashir Zakir Thaver Fatima Mullick Real World Records

1/5 Loved attending an exclusive evening celebrating global icon & Qawwali Ustad, #NusratFatehAliKhan on Tue night in Manchester! We had an exclusive viewing of #UstadTheFilm, a biopic with rare & unseen footage, produced by the brilliant Saiyna Bashir supported by the British Council


We were delighted to attend an evening in celebration of the legend Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan which took place at Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) featuring Chain of Light, an album of previously unheard recordings. British Council Pakistan Real World Records Saiyna Bashir



Destined for Clicks: YouTube is driving an astrology boom in Pakistan Read our new feature by M. Z. Adnan, with photography by Saiyna Bashir restofworld.org/2024/YouTube-a…

How YouTube is catapulting Pakistani astrologers to the stars Read our new feature, with photography by Saiyna Bashir restofworld.org/2024/YouTube-a…


Read the full story in our new feature by M. Z. Adnan, with photography by Saiyna Bashir Destined for Clicks: YouTube is driving an astrology boom in Pakistan restofworld.org/2024/youtube-a…

The new album by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Chain of Light, is out today on Real World Records. Here's an excerpt from a short film that tells the story of the album's re-discovery in the Real World Records archive. The film was produced by Saiyna Bashir Bashir Studios with support from British Council Pakistan.