Waiting for Dawn

No one could be more qualified to write a memoir on Pakistan's turbulent history than a grandstand viewer - and a journalist to boot. With more than half a century of experience in journalism - 49 years at Dawn, South Asia's best paper - Muhammad Ali Siddiqi has been witness to events which have shaped today's Pakistan and Karachi.

Muhammad Ali Siddiqi is an author and at present Readers' Editor of Dawn, Pakistan's most prestigious English daily. He is a seasoned journalist, having worked for more than five decades for various English dailies, including Dawn, Morning News and The Sun. He has been now with Dawn since 1973. In Dawn, he has been News Editor, City Editor, Magazine Editor, Political Correspondent, Column Writer, Diplomatic Correspondent, Leader Writer and Dawn's Washington Correspondent (1992-95) where he covered the State Department, Congress and the White House. In June 2014, he was appointed Dawn's first Readers' Editor. With an MA in Political Science from the University of Karachi (1960), he has specialised in Middle Eastern affairs. The Cardiff-based Thomson Foundation gave him a scholarship for copy flow and layout in 1976. He has written over 3,550 editorials for Dawn on political, constitutional and foreign affairs. Besides hundreds of his articles in Dawn, he has also written for Washington Times, the Los Angeles Times, Khaleej Times, and the Times of India.