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Mishal Husain (Urdu: مشعل حسین) (sometimes spelt Mishal Hussein) (born 1973 in Northampton, England) is a British television news presenter for the BBC's international news channel, BBC World News, presenting Impact between 1400 and 1600 GMT every Monday to Thursday as well as presenting the Sunday evening editions of the BBC Weekend News on BBC One. She was previously a presenter on the BBC News talk show HARDtalk Extra and on BBC Breakfast. She is also a relief presenter on the BBC News at Six and the BBC News at Ten, and occasionally presents Newsnight.
Mishal Husain is of Pakistani origin. Her grandfather, Syed Shahid Hamid, was an army officer serving in the Indian Army prior to the 1947 Partition, as a private Military Secretary of Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck. In the wake of India’s independence, led by Mohandas Gandhi, Husain’s grandfather and family “didn’t feel that he (Gandhi) represented them.” Husain herself has explained the matter in the following way:
S. Shahid Hamid wrote a book called Disastrous Twilight about early days of independent India:
Mishal is a village in south-western Yemen. It is located in the Abyan Governorate.
Coordinates: 13°39′N 45°47′E / 13.65°N 45.783°E / 13.65; 45.783
Aung San Suu Kyi MP AC (Burmese: ; MLCTS: aung hcan: cu. krany, IPA: [ʔàʊɴ sʰáɴ sṵ tɕì]; born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese opposition politician and General Secretary of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Burma. In the 1990 general election, the NLD won 59% of the national votes and 81% (392 of 485) of the seats in Parliament. She had, however, already been detained under house arrest before the elections. She remained under house arrest in Burma for almost 15 of the 21 years from 20 July 1989 until her most recent release on 13 November 2010, becoming one of the world's most prominent (now former) political prisoners.
Suu Kyi received the Rafto Prize and the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 1990 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. In 1992 she was awarded the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding by the government of India and the International Simón Bolívar Prize from the government of Venezuela. In 2007, the Government of Canada made her an honorary citizen of that country; at the time, she was one of only four people ever to receive the honor. In 2011, she was awarded the Wallenberg Medal.