[2] Topics he has written about include religious minorities in Pakistan, human rights, democratic development, and rule of law.
In 1994, he was awarded the Britannia Scholarship and completed a master's of science degree in media studies from the London School of Economics.
In 2001, Siddiqi started work as a lecturer on journalism at the Gippsland Campus of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.
[citation needed] In 2012, Siddiqi became a Draper Hills Summer Fellow, hosted by the Stanford University Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law.
[4] In 2016, he became Director of the Centre for Excellence in Journalism (CEJ) at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) in Karachi, after he resigned from The Express Tribune.
[5][6][7] In a 2011 interview with Global Journalist, Siddiqi explained that he seeks to report on Pakistan in a positive light.