Sheikh Saaliq is the South Asia Correspondent at The Associated Press. He reports and coordinates real-time coverage of news and distinctive enterprise stories across South Asia, and helps text teams in regional stations with digital story-telling and delivering AP’s daily news coverage across a stretch of countries from India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal.

Saaliq was previously AP’s India correspondent based in New Delhi, where he covered breaking news and enterprise stories, helping with the direct coverage of the world’s most populous country.

He has extensively written about the rise of Hindu nationalism and backsliding of democracy in India, rising attacks on minority Muslims, a government crackdown on dissent, the brutal strife in disputed Kashmir, and India’s fight against a pandemic that brought its economic and social inequalities to light. He has also reported on the crisis in Bangladesh after a public led uprising, and crucial elections in Sri Lanka where a Marxist jolted the country’s politics.

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