Jamshid Ghazi Askar is a staff writer for the LDS Church News. He also writes articles published in the Mormon Times and was previously a sport reporter for the Deseret News. Beganing in June 2010 Askar also began to write a blog entitled "the big lever" for the Deseret News.
Askar holds a JD from Brigham Young University. He has also worked as a reporter for the Provo Daily Herald.
Askar and his wife are the parents of two daughters with a third child due to be born in July 2010.[1]