Pir Zubair Shah is a Pakistani journalist from South Waziristan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
From 2008 to 2011, Shah worked as a reporter for The New York Times covering the tribal regions along the Afghan border.
[1] In 2008, he and freelance journalist Akhtar Soomro were kidnapped by the Pakistani Taliban (TTP) from Ziarat Marble in Lakaro tehsil while working on assignment for The New York Times.
[2] Shah has also worked with and published in Newsday, Washington Times, and at other Western media outlets.
[3] In 2009, he shared the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting with Jane Perlez, Eric P. Schmitt and Mark Mazzetti for his work at the New York Times.