Idress Bakhtiar is a senior Karachi

Karachi

Karachi is the largest city, main seaport and the main financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13 to 15 million, while the total metropolitan area has a population of over 18 million...

-based journalist. Until 2007, he was the Karachi correspondent of BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 Urdu service and the Chief Reporter of the Herald

Herald (Pakistan)

The Herald is a monthly magazine published in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It is a political magazine owned by Pakistan Herald Publications Limited , which also publishes the Dawn Group of Newspapers. It is considered to be a neutral magazine and produces many large or breaking stories...

. Over the years his regular column for the monthly news magazine has attracted wide readership. He routinely conducts interviews with the leading political lights of his country. He is currently associate editor of the Herald. He also hosts a political chat show for Eye Television Network (also known as Hum TV).