Bakht Noor Nasar

Bakht Noor Nasar is a researcher who writes on the political economy of conflict, development and social movements, with a geographical focus on Pakistan and Afghanistan. He can be reached at @zabulistan_ on X (Twitter).

The political economy of reporting on the War on Terror in the Afghanistan–Pakistan borderlands

Syed Irfan Ashraf’s ‘The Dark Side of Journalism’ and Saad Mohseni and Jenna Krajeski’s ‘Radio Free Afghanistan’ show how local journalists became both victims and agents of geopolitical conflict and an exploitative global media – and looked to push back

By Bakht Noor Nasar

/ 26 Nov 2024

Five local journalists wait on the wreckage of a minibus while reporting on an uprising of Taliban prisoners in Pul-e-Charkhi