Saeed Shah
Reporting on global affairs, from war to climate change to economic turmoil
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The global drive to eliminate polio
Front-page story for The Wall Street Journal in 2021 on the decades-long struggle to eliminate polio, and what lessons it provided for tackling Covid-19. I went out with vaccinators, who had come under regular terrorist attack,
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Suicide bombings against Chinese
Front-page story for The Wall Street Journal, 2022: China made Pakistan the showcase for its global infrastructure building program. I tracked down the shocked family of a female suicide bomber who blew up Chinese teachers, and got the inside track on the police investigation
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Investigating Mumbai attack
The Guardian, 2008: A front-page scoop. After gunmen killed 166 people in Mumbai, Pakistan denied that the attackers came there. I tracked down the home village of the sole surviving gunman, to prove he was Pakistani, a story that changed policy in Pakistan, India and the U.S.
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How China's fighter jet won
Reuters, 2025: I got inside the Pakistan Air Force’s war control room, to figure out how Pakistan’s Chinese-made fighter jets shot down several top Western planes flown by India. The story showed the previously untested capabilities of Chinese military hardware in an actual war
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Inland sea drowns towns and villages
The Wall Street Journal, Sept 2022: Reported on monsoon flooding so extreme that it covered 10% of the country. I went by boat to a submerged town, where the remaining residents were swimming across streets. Global warming likely disrupted the rain pattern, deluging the normally parched south.
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Investigating the Easter attackers
The Wall Street Journal, 2019: Scoop: After suicide bombers attacked hostels and churches in the Easter attacks, I found out that they were not in fact linked to Islamic State, as had been thought, but instead had self-indoctrinated and taught themselves bombmaking from the internet.
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The Wall Street Journal, 2021: I found a woman so poor that she was selling her three-year-old daughter. Readers raised $60,000, which saved her daughter and provided for the family. This story was part of the WSJ entry that was a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.
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