The Guardian (UK): Once dubbed the ‘Afghan Rupert Murdoch’, Mohseni’s media business was founded after the fall of the Taliban and is now navigating their return. Founded by Mohseni and his siblings – Afghan emigres who returned to their childhood home from Australia after the removal of the Taliban in 2001 – Moby was the
By Ayaz Gul VOA News October 4, 2020 ISLAMABAD – The World Bank says almost half of Afghanistan’s 18,000 schools lack proper buildings and an estimated 3.7 million children are still out of the classroom despite massive investment in the education sector. The bank’s country director Sunday urged Afghan leaders to invest more in their people
Politico: Profile of Saad Mohseni. The son of an exiled Afghan diplomat, Mohseni started his career managing investment portfolios in Australia before moving to London to oversee fixed income and derivatives trading. After the fall of the Taliban, he flew with a brother to Kabul, where they heard that radio licenses were being auctioned. Putting
Sydney Morning Herald: The company that was paid more than $1.6 million to promote Immigration Minister Peter Dutton’s anti-refugee telemovie is owned by a man known as the “Rupert Murdoch of Afghanistan” who himself came to Australia as a refugee. Saad Mohseni fled to Australia as a teenager with his family in the early 1980s, shortly