Shams Ul Haq (journalist)
Shams Ul Haq Qudoos is a German-Pakistani journalist and author. Early life Ul Haq was born in Jhang District in Punjab, Pakistan to a Kashmiri street vendor and watermelon seller. In 1990, at the age of 15, he came to Germany as an unaccompanied minor asylum seeker and with the help of a scholarship he moved to Bad Marienberg. After training as a welder, he worked for various companies. He was granted German citizenship in 2001, moved to Offenbach and ran a cell phone shop with a postal agency in Frankfurt-Nordend. Career Ul Haq started his career in 2007 at Die Weltt where he interviewed Benazir Bhutto. His main area of journalism is Islamic radicalization and terrorism with a focus on the middle east. Ul Haq has reported as a freelance investigative journalist for media organisations including ORF, Welt-TV, Kleine Zeitung, n-tv , ZDF, Die Welt, Wiener Zeitung and The Nation. He currently works as an Asia correspondent for N24 (WELT). In 2016, he spent several months living in 35 refugee camps in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland to investigate the conditions of these camps. n his book, "Die Brutstätte des Terrors", Ul-Haq detailed his findings and experiences and claimed that