Hammad Sarfraz

Hammad Sarfraz Headshot
Climate Change Fellows

Reporter, The Express Tribune, Pakistan

2025-2026

For more than 15 years, Sarfraz has been on the frontlines of journalism, covering politics, foreign policy, and conflict. Now, as the head of original content and special reports, he leads a team of reporters across Pakistan, exposing stories that often go unheard, often with considerable impact. Sarfraz covered such topics as the lack of air quality monitoring in Pakistan’s most polluted cities, the glaring oversight of homeless and transgender individuals being denied vaccines because they lacked national ID cards, and public transportation accessibility issues. Sarfraz is part of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network, a Reuters Institute initiative at the University of Oxford.

Topic

Climate change is reshaping lives in Pakistan beyond rising temperatures. In the north, harsher winters make farming, tourism, and daily wage labor impossible for months, leaving families without income. This economic paralysis is triggering a silent mental health crisis — suicide rates are rising as despair deepens. In the south, scorching summers and droughts are wiping out crops, forcing families into hunger and migration. As livelihoods vanish, mental health struggles are growing, yet these crises remain absent from the government's agenda.