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Salman Masood

Islamabad

Correspondent at The New York Times

Reports for NYTimes | Editor, The Nation | APNS Best Columnist 2024 | Author: ‘Fallout’( Penguin Random House India) 'Fall Out' (Vanguard) | Views: Personal

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  • 1 week ago | nytimes.com | Salman Masood |Saiyna Bashir

    Asia Pacific|As Pakistan Moves to Ban Black Magic, Astrologers See a Bad Omenhttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/world/asia/pakistan-black-magic.htmlYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. The curtain glows under ceiling lights, and a soft cream-colored screen guards the privacy of clients who slip inside.

  • 1 week ago | nyti.ms | Salman Masood |Saiyna Bashir

    The curtain glows under ceiling lights, and a soft cream-colored screen guards the privacy of clients who slip inside. On a glass panel by the door, bold white letters offer quiet assurance: Shahbaz, Astrologer & Palmist. Shahbaz Anjum has worked in Shop 2-A inside the Pearl Continental Hotel in Lahore, Pakistan, for 24 years. He does not advertise. Yet rich and poor, believer and skeptic, come to him for luck, direction, a glimpse behind the veil. “I help people,” Mr. Anjum said. “That’s all.

  • 3 weeks ago | psyche.co | Salman Masood

    The first time I witnessed death’s aftermath at work, my world tilted on its axis. It was 2002, and a terrorist attack targeted a Christian hospital in Taxila, a city near the Pakistani capital Islamabad. As I walked through the scene, my head grew heavy and my heart thumped. The smell of blood and explosives seemed to press down on me, making each step feel like wading through water.

  • 1 month ago | spokesman.com | Salman Masood

    RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — Pakistan’s military said Sunday that it expected a fragile calm along the border with India to hold, as senior officers from both countries continue to talk on a direct line after the region was jolted by four days of missile attacks and airstrikes. Top military officers from both sides “are in contact, a mechanism is in place,” Lt. Gen. Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, the spokesperson for Pakistan’s armed forces, told The New York Times.

  • 1 month ago | flipboard.com | Salman Masood

    6 hours ago"China Shopping" craze emerges as travelers discover abundance of quality productsOverseas tourists in China are embracing the country's ample shopping opportunities, convenient payment technology and instant tax refunds for travelers.

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