===Background===
Sehgal was born in Larkana, Pakistan, in a Punjabi business family.<ref name="news international" /><ref name="times of karachi">{{cite web|url=https://pluswww.googlefacebook.com/u/0sehgalreviews/photos/photoa.785724781798551/105085114321557307364785723945131968/6429514164720171810?icmtype=false|last3&theaterlast=Khan|first=Mushtaq A.|title=Readers Enchanted by Ehsan Sehgal's ''The flight of imagination''|publisher=Times of Karachi|date=9 October 1995}}</ref> His father, Khawaja Manzoor Elahi Sehgal, was from Pind Dadan Khan, Pakistan.<ref name="times of karachi" /> Sehgal received his primary and secondary education in Larkana.<ref name="times of karachi" /> He later moved to Karachi for higher education. He was awarded a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree from University of Sindh, Hyderabad, and obtained Master of Arts Urdu (M.A.) and Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degrees from the University of Karachi.<ref name="times of karachi" />
He worked in several private firms before he initiated his career in journalism.<ref name="times of karachi" /> Sehgal distinguished himself as a journalist; however, "unfavorable conditions" under the rule of Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq forced him to depart from the country.<ref name="news international" /> In 1978, he sought political asylum in the Netherlands, settling in The Hague<ref>{{cite web|url=https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/photo/105085114321557307364/6429513921297032178?icm=false|title=Gevlucht|last=Korving|first=Joke|date=3 January 1979|work=Haagsche Courant|page=17|date=28 July 2011}}</ref> to work as a freelance journalist.<ref name="news international" /><ref name="times of karachi" /> He currently freelances for Urdu newspapers and magazines and online daily newspapers and English as well.<ref name="AT">{{cite web|url=http://www.atimes.com/author/ehsan-sehgal/|title=Ehsan Sehgal|publisher=Asia Times|date=|accessdate=}}</ref>