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Declan Walsh

Born

in Ballina, Co. Mayo, Ireland

January 01, 1973

Genre

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Declan Walsh is an Irish journalist who is currently (January 2021) Chief Africa Correspondent for The New York Times based in Nairobi, Kenya. He was previously bureau chief for The New York Times in Cairo, Egypt, from which position he covered the entire Middle East. He spent five months reporting on the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, prior to which he was The New York Times bureau chief in Pakistan from 2011 until he was expelled in May 2013 for what the Pakistani authorities characterised as “undesirable activities”.

Mr. Walsh was born and raised in Ireland, and started his career at The Sunday Business Post in Dublin before moving to Nairobi, Kenya in 1999 to cover sub-Saharan Africa as a freelance reporter. He moved to Islamabad, Pak ...more

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	The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State 4.16 avg rating — 2,571 ratings — published 2020 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Granta 112: Pakistan by John Freeman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Green Cardamom (Contributor), Declan Walsh (Contributor) 3.92 avg rating — 340 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Granta 116: Ten Years Later by John Freeman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Pico Iyer (Contributor), Declan Walsh (Contributor) 3.91 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Insh'allah Nation: A Journey Through Modern Pakistan 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Palliative Care in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis by David Oliver (Editor), Gian Domenico Borasio (Editor), Declan Walsh (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2001 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“If Pakistani cities were caricatures, most would be easy to draw. Lahore is corpulent and languid, stretched out in a shalwar kameez, twirling its moustache over a greasy breakfast. Islamabad cuts a more clipped figure, holding court in a gilded drawing room, proffering Scotch and political whispers. Peshawar wears a turban or a burka, scuttling among the stalls of an ancient bazaar. But Karachi is harder to sketch. It has too many faces: the shiny-shod businessman, rushing to the gym; the hardscrabble labourer who sends his wages to a distant village; the slinky young socialite, kicking off her heels as she bends over a line of cocaine.”
― Declan Walsh, The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State

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“In God is Gracious, a satirical essay published in 1954, the writer Saadat Hasan Manto envisaged a Pakistan in which poetry, arts and music were silenced by accusations of blasphemy. His words proved prophetic”
― Declan Walsh, The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Divided Nation

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“But the most profound effect of that era was on the Pakistan military’s thinking. Intoxicated by victory, the ISI sought to replicate its success in Afghanistan by employing the same tactics elsewhere. Through the 1990s, it established its own jihadi groups and deployed them to attack Indian soldiers in Kashmir, and it funnelled cash to foreign Islamist guerrillas as far afield as the Philippines. At home, the emboldened spy agency meddled aggressively in politics, mostly in an effort to oust Benazir Bhutto. ISI officers rigged elections, bought politicians and strong-armed troublesome judges. Critics began to speak of a ‘state within a state’.”
― Declan Walsh, The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Divided Nation

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