OUR TEAM

Irfan Quraishi is a Founding Editor of Kashmir Patriot. Quraishi is heading the editorial team of Kashmir patriot. He is Srinagar based Broadcast & Multimedia journalist. He has previously worked as Bureau Chief for Day & Night News, Chandigarh based TV channel, Senior Correspondent at Kashmir Times and few more. He has acquired journalistic experience in Print, Electronic and Digital media. He had been a fellow of Thomson Reuters Foundation London and RNTC Europe. He has done a great deal of reporting and analysis on diverse issues of public importance including Human Rights, Media, Security, Politics, Health, Tourism, Education and Current Affairs. His contributions have been published in The Hoot, The Quint, The Citizen, and many other national media organizations. He tweets @irfanquraishi85

Syed Irfan Qadri is a Deputy Editor of Kashmir Patriot. Earlier he has worked with NewsBlaze as Principal Correspondent , Caters News Agency as Correspondent, E24 as Associate Producer and as Director/Producer with Inside Creative Industries. He has Produced/Directed various Drama serials, Musical Shows, Tele Films, Short Films and Documentaries for many Productions Houses, TV channels, NGO’s and Govt Departments like MARVEL, Loin Films London, Eagle Films, BAG films, DD Urdu, DD National, DD Bharti, DD Kashir. He has freelanced as writer, documentarian focusing on Politics, Conflict, Environment, and Education. He tweets @SyedIrfanQadri

Pradeep Kumar is a Co-Founder & Programming head of Kashmir Patriot. He is Delhi based program Director/Producer who has made more than 200 documentary films on social issues, culture, craft, and religious place, Institutions etc besides several AD films / Commercials for TV and Radio. He has worked with DD News, BAG Films, ETV Urdu, D.D.Urdu, D.D.Bharti, Gyan Darshan. During his 13 years of media experience, he has produced several famous programs with different television ventures, like “Adaa” for ETV, “Tehkiki Idare” for DD Urdu. He has also produced and directed episodic documentaries like “Shaktisthal, Tirath Yatra”, “Hastkala – Sanskritik Virasat”, “Aaj ke Fankar”. Kumar has also worked for famous TV shows of Doordarshan , such as: I Love my India, Azaadi ke Parwane, Nayee Umang, Ba-waqar Khatoon and many more.

Zahoor Din Lone is a Co-Founder & Creative head and Art & Culture Editor at Kashmir Patriot. Lone is the creative mind behind the multimedia stuff of the venture being fine arts professional. Lone has worked with Delhi based graphics & designing companies like Positive Images Pvt Ltd., Iqra displays Pvt Ltd. Lone is the Founder & captain of India’s International Snow Sculpture team that participated in ‘International Championship-2017’ in United States and won Award for India. Lone is an award winning artist cum designer of the state of Jammu & Kashmir.  He is also founder of J&K”s first national Art group ‘Callisto’. He is an alumina of Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He tweets @zkashmiri85

Nimish Kumar is a Contributing Editor at Kashmir Patriot. Kumar is executive editor of Hindustan Samachar, a Delhi based National News Agency. He is a prominent economy journalist in Delhi. He has been an alumina of Reuters foundations. Kumar also participates as a frequent commentator at ABP news, DD News, News nation television channels in New Delhi.

Shah Gowhar is a Contributing Author at Kashmir Patriot. Shah is Journalist at Delhi based National News Agency. He has previously worked with several media organizations.

Tweets : @Shah_Gowhar_

Umar Zaz is Social Media Manager at Kashmir Patriot. He has previously worked with Digital Marketing Specialist, Kashmedia Productions as Customer support and Kashmir Press service as Social media manager. He has expertise in Google analytics, Digital media and technical support. He tweets @umizaz

Mohammed Naseeruddin (Naseer Giyas) is Contributing Editor at Kashmir Patriot. He is a Hyderabad based Multimedia & Multi lingual Journalist who has over 12 years of experience in journalism. For the last eleven years, he has been working for Etemaad Urdu Daily. He contributes a widely watched Urdu Television Station 4TV Hyderabad, Times of India. In the year 2012, Naseer visited the United States of America to participate in the International Visitor Leadership Program on Journalism and US foreign policy at the invitation of the State Department. Naseer is an alumi of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Naseer is also an alumni of International Center for Journalist (ICFJ).

Jaffar Saleem is IT head at Kashmir Patriot. Saleem has more than 10 years of experience in Website development, software and App building. He has earlier worked with Kashmir Times as IT head.

Suhail Qazi is Kashmir Patriot’s Office Manager. He has previously worked at Venus, Norvest and Central University of Kashmir. Qazi has great deal of experience in accounts, advertisement, sales, and marketing departments. He holds a masters degree in masters in public administration, a diploma in software engineering.