Undercover · 2026
Inside the fake asylum industry
Bogus websites, staged protests and pretend atheists — the networks coaching migrants to game Britain's asylum system, exposed.
Led to two arrests
BBC News · Investigative Journalist
Reporting that crosses borders and holds power to account.
Twenty-five years telling the stories that connect Britain and South Asia — from prison radicalisation and organised immigration crime to honour-based violence, for Panorama, File on 4 and BBC World Service.
25 years at the BBC
Featured investigations
Panorama · BBC Two
The Starmer Fires: The Russian Connection
A flagship television investigation into a series of arson attacks and the trail of foreign interference behind them.
June 2026
Radio 4 · World Service
The Deobandis
The critically acclaimed series on one of the most influential movements in British Islam.
2016
A reporter of two worlds.
From the Urdu Section of the BBC World Service to the corporation's investigations unit, Sajid Iqbal has spent his career at the intersection of British and South Asian public life — reported on air, in print and online, and in Pakistan's Dawn newspaper.
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