Basharat Peer (born 1977) is a Indian journalist, script writer, author, political commentator, and separatist, hailing from Kashmir and currently based in New York City. He is currently an Opinion editor at The New York Times (International). Peer is a fellow of the Open Society Institute in New York, a George Soros initiative. He maintains that both India and Pakistan are occupying forces in Kashmir and often calls the Indian-administered part of Jammu and Kashmir as Indian-occupied Kashmir. Peer was born in Seer, Anantnag in Jammu and Kashmir. He attended school in the valley of Kashmir and continued his education after matriculation in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh away from his strife-ridden birthplace. He studied political science at Aligarh Muslim University, law at Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, and journalism at Columbia University. Peer's father is a retired officer of the Kashmir Administrative Services. Peer is married to Ananya Vajpeyi, an academician. Peer started his career as a reporter at Rediff and Tehelka. In his early career he was based in Delhi. Peer currently runs the "India Ink" blog on the digital edition of The New York Times. Peer was the script writer along with Vishal Bhardwaj for the Bollywood film Haider (2014). He also had a special appearance in the film.

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