Anila Baig (born 1970 in Bradford) is a British Pakistani Feature Writer at The Sun.
Anila Baig, whose ancestors were from Pakistan,[1] was born and raised in the city of Bradford in 1970.
[2] Baig began working as a journalist in 1998, when she joined the Telegraph & Argus newspaper as a trainee reporter, before moving to Yorkshire Post as a columnist.
[3] In addition to writing news reports, she also started a weekly column and won the Press Gazette Regional Columnist of the Year award 2004.
[7] Although not wearing a Hijab in any of her previous employments, Baig was seen on The Sun's Front Page donning the Muslim headscarf; however, she ditched the cloth early in 2004 leading to speculation that she and The Sun treated this symbol of the Islamic faith as a mere publicity gimmick.