Ash-har Quraishi (born January 5, 1975) is an American broadcast journalist and national consumer correspondent for CBS News.
[1] Quraishi served as CNN's Islamabad Bureau Chief covering news from across Pakistan, based there within days of the 9/11 attacks.
While at the network he reported on political and military tensions between nuclear neighbors India and Pakistan and the hunt for Osama bin Laden on the volatile Pakistan/Afghanistan border.
Quraishi also covered the 2002 Pakistani elections and was the first western journalist to report the capture of suspected 9/11 planner Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.
Quraishi was one of several journalists whose names were listed in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union against the NSA for illegal wiretaps.
At the time Quraishi was reporting on a story about "special interest" detainees who had been detained and deported even though they had not been charged with any terrorist related activities.
[6] On July 30, 2013 it was announced Quraishi was hired by the now-defunct Al Jazeera America to serve as its chief correspondent for its Chicago bureau.