Mobi Media Group Responsible for Failure in Afghanistan

Dr Ehsan Azari Stanizai

Christina Lamb’s (the Afghan station defying Taliban and giving women a voice, The Sunday Times Sept. 22) naively tries to glorify a shadowy media network—Mobi and its pro-Iranian owner, Mr Muhsini in Afghanistan.  Like all kleptocrat warlords, this media outlet has been equally responsible for the sad failure of Western liberal democracy in Afghanistan that helped the medieval Taliban to march on Kabul in August 2021.  Mobi’s obsessive sectarianism and spreading anti-Pashtun phobia in Afghanistan damaged the unity of the people of Afghanistan.

The Mobi media mogul’s (Saad Mohsini) assertion, “We are the canary in the coal mine in Afghanistan,” is misleading.  He tried to eat the canary.  Among many of the sins of Mobi are:

1.      Mobi tried to obliterate Dari’s everyday language and replace it with the Iranian language—thousands of typical Iranian words, phrases, and idioms were spread in the country to corrupt the Afghan native language, Dari.

2.      Mobi’s long propaganda ceaselessly radicalised Afghan ethnic minorities and Shia militancy.

Now, the Mobi Group has metastasised in the US, where the majority of its staff belong to members of ethnic minorities.

The Mobi needs serious reform.  To be fair, Afghan sections of BBC, VOA, and DW are more committed to a unified and sovereign Afghan nation.

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Saad Mohsini of Mobi Media in Afghanistan is a charlatan who Create a False Image of Himself and His Media in the West

Mosini, the owner of Mobi Media in the FT interview: “Afghanistan on the edge” (The Financial Times: September 17) carry a conceptual blind spot on what is going on within the Taliban’s medieval rule in unfortunate Afghanistan. The interview also maintains that the Taliban isn’t a monolithic militant group, and some elements within them are willing to rule the country and engage with the world in a civilized way. However, the key question is why the Taliban sustainably increase their brutal treatment of the women and girls who are forcibly banned from every aspect of social, political, and cultural life.  Almost every month, the Taliban’s reclusive and masquerading leader, Shaikh Habatullah, issues more and more insane decrees to harm his nation and people.  This issue is the heart of the Afghan problem that needs a deconstruction.

In the wake of the US-Taliban Accord in 2020 that allowed for the withdrawal of the Western troops from the country to the Taliban on August 21, 2021Aljazeera reported that the US is vigilant against the interference of Pakistani ruling generals.  The failure of the Accord began soon when the leader of Pakistan military intelligence, Faiz Hamid, made the Taliban cabinet and installed his agents as key ministers.  The veiled leader of the Taliban, who is arguably a heartless villain, sidelined all the moderate leaders at the behest of Pakistan.  He is virtually using Islam as a play tool for his Sharia enforcement.  Afghanistan and the people of Afghanistan will never see the daylight unless and until the Pakistani proxy hardline Taliban remains as ruler of the country. The Pakistani ruling general determines the degree of the temperature in Kabul from their headquarters in Rawalpindi.

Hailing from the Afghan Shia ethnic minority, Mohsini has a double face.  On the one hand he considers himself a patriotic Afghan, but in the last two decade of his whole Mobi Media has been responsible for disrupting Afghan communal cohesion, banality of arts, sectarianism, and pro-Iraian propaganda.