Mishal Husain

 

Mishal Husain is a familiar face on BBC World News as the presenter of the east Asia-focused World News Today, and also to viewers in the UK where she presents BBC One's Sunday evening News At Ten.
Her diverse talents have been seen on a range of BBC programmes including Hardtalk Extra, BBC One's Breakfast show and Radio 4 news and current affairs.
Mishal is particularly well known in the fiercely competitive television market in the United States, helping establish the BBC brand there as its first Washington-based anchor. Her nightly news programmes in 2002 and 2003 developed a keen following around the time of the Iraq war.
She is also known for presenting live on location for the BBC, including for the Beijing Olympics, the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's 60th anniversary and the 2004 US presidential election campaign.