Background
Rosenberg was born in New New York
Rosenberg was born in New New York
He previously wrote about Afghanistan and Pakistan for the paper, but was expelled from Afghanistan in August 2014 on the orders of President Hamid Karzai, the first expulsion of a Western journalist from Afghanistan since the Taliban ruled the country. He holds a Bachelor"s degree from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. began his reporting career at The Associated Press, and served as a foreign correspondent for the news agency in India, East Africa and the Caribbean. in 2007, joined The Wall Street Journal. He also was part of the Journal team that covered the 2008 attack on Mumbai. joined The New York Times in 2011.
He also christened Afghanistan’s first international boxing match "The Squabble in Kabul." Mr.
Karzai acknowledged the payments the day the story appeared, and later thanked the C.I.A. for providing the money and said he had been assured the flow of money would continue. Espionage Accusations On November 5, 2009, The Nation newspaper in Pakistan printed a front page story that falsely accused of being a spy.
The story claimed that worked for the Central Intelligence Agency, the United States. security contractor formerly known as Blackwater and had ties to Israeli intelligence.” Wall Street Journal Managing Editor Robert Thomson wrote to the editor of The Nation, Shireen Mazari, to protest the false story about soon after the article appeared. The Wall Street Journal"s Daniel Pearl, kidnapped and killed in 2002 in Pakistan, was labelled a Jewish spy in a similar manner by some sections of Pakistani media before his death.
Twenty-one editors from the world"s major international news organizations also signed a letter of protest, criticizing the unsubstantiated article for compromising "s security.
In August 2014, was barred from leaving Afghanistan and interrogated by the country’s attorney general after writing a story about how senior Afghan security officials were considering whether to stage what would, in essence, amount to a coup because of a mounting political crisis. The following day, the travel ban was abruptly reversed, and was ordered to leave Afghanistan within 24 hours. He departed Afghanistan on August 21, in compliance with the government order. is currently based in Washington, District of Columbia.
Defending the decision to order out Rosenberg, a government statement called his story "an act of espionage", and Aimal Faizi, a spokesman for President Karzai, said the expulsion had been ordered at "the highest levels.".