Sohail Sangi

Sohail Sangi is a senior journalist and activist of the leftist movement in Pakistan, presently working with the daily newspaper Dawn. He has been on the visiting faculty of the Mass Communication Department at the University of Sindh. Currently, he is on the visiting faculty of the Department of Mass Communication (Abdul Haq Campus Karachi) at the Federal Urdu University.

Early life Sohail Sangi was born in village Janjhi of Tharparkar district, Pakistan in 1953. He did his M.A. in English from University of Sindh Jamshoro in the 1970s. He was an activist of the left-wing students organisation Sindh National Students Federation during his student life.

Career Sohail Sangi joined journalism in the mid-1970s. He was one of the pioneers of Daily Sindh News which was published under the editorship of Sindhi nationalist leader Shaikh Aziz in 1975 and later, also worked with Daily Ibrat, Daily Safeer, Daily Awami Awaz, and Daily Kawish.

Sohail Sangi has helped introduce progressive activists in Sindhi media besides his other contributions in journalism.

He has been a freelance contributor of BBC Urdu.