Salman Masood

Journalist, editor and author, Islamabad, Pakistan

Salman Masood is a Pakistani journalist who has been Pakistan correspondent for The New York Times since 2001. He is also an editor at Pakistan’s The Nation newspaper and the author of Fallout: Power, Intrigue and Political Upheaval in Pakistan (Penguin Random House India, 2024). He is based in Islamabad.

Written by Salman Masood

A man wearing a robe sitting amidst rubble between two damaged red cars. He holds his head and has boxes and bags beside him.

GRIEF

Fieldnotes from my father’s funeral

I’d reported on earthquakes, murders and suicide attacks. I was still unprepared to watch my dad die

by Salman Masood