Mujib Mashal
@MujMash
India and South Asia for The New York Times.
Previously: senior correspondent, Afghanistan. Views are my own.
Joined February 2011
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Pinned TweetFrom Bengal, we look at a bitterly-fought election that’s become about much more than who rules the state of 90 million: PM Modi has invested heavily to put to rest, for once and all, that there’s a “natural boundary” to the Hindu nationalist ideology.
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Mujib Mashal RetweetedPakistan's military has obsessively pursued the goal of U.S. withdrawing from the neighboring Afghanistan. Biden's decision has granted that wish. But what lies ahead could be a wave of trouble for Pakistan.
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About 32 million people in India were driven into poverty by the pandemic last year. The second wave of the virus means “the middle class dreams of tens of millions of people face even greater peril”
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Mujib Mashal RetweetedInterior ministry source confirms temporary ban on Facebook, Whatsapp, Twitter, YouTube and Telegram in Pakistan. "This was imposed in anticipation of [TLP] protests and their penetration in the social media [is very high]. It is a temporary ban, from 11am to 3pm," says source.
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As Pakistan moves to ban Tehreek-i-Labbaik as a terror outfit, a dilemma: what happens to the three seats the TLP has in the provincial assembly in Sindh?
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Big takeaway for history in how the US endgame in Afghanistan is playing out is the precedent: World's biggest superpower, largest military coalition, effectively turned a blind eye as a professed ally wore them down, checkmated them with an insurgency.
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On the other hand, Taliban will claim victory even if a civil war means no one wins in Afghanistan. The prospect of the ideological brothers defeating world’s largest military coalition is bound to embolden varying shades of extremism at home that Pakistan thought it had in check
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If Afghanistan falls into another civil war, unfortunately the people in neighboring Pakistan will bear the burden again — millions of refugees seeking shelter in Pakistan’s cities and towns, like the 1990s.
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“The ISI, with the help of America, defeated America,” Gen. Hamid Gul predicted on the show Joke Night. Pakistan’s military is close to its wish in Afghanistan. But to get there, it’s played with fire. Question is: can it control that fire at home now?
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Mujib Mashal RetweetedIn the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, Pakistan's military is getting closer to its wish for a pliable neighbor in which to exert more influence. But what lies ahead could also be another wave of disruption for the fragile nuclear state.
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Mujib Mashal RetweetedThe Editors Guild of India urges the Union Government to declare journalists as frontline workers and be allowed priority vaccination against Coronavirus, along with other frontline workers.
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The longer this war dragged on -- aimlessly, without a direction, and without real intention to address the source of the problem -- the more localized it became. A legacy of blood-feuds. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban-social-media.html …
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Mujib Mashal RetweetedScenes from inside and outside a COVID-19 hospital, amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease in New Delhi, India April 15, 2021. India recorded more than 200,000 positive cases and 1,000+ deaths today.
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Striking line in this
@GregJaffe: "I wish I could say Biden was a student of history." Even cliff-notes of history would make clear: A large reason for Afghanistan being the violent mess that it is, for 9/11, was another reckless US departure aft achieving what it wanted in 80s. -
Mujib Mashal RetweetedFrench Embassy in Pakistan confirms it has sent a "precautionary" message to citizens in Pakistan advising them to temporarily leave the country if possible due to the anti-France sentiment at the centre of violent TLP protests this week.
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Mujib Mashal RetweetedAhmad Rashid has written a requiem for I.A Rahman, a distinguished Pakistani writer, journalist and activist who dedicated his life to fighting the evil of power and corruption and telling truth.
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Mujib Mashal RetweetedTo control the spread of COVID19, it has been decided to impose weekend curfew in Delhi: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal
