Declan Walsh is the Pakistan bureau chief for the New York Times. He previously worked for The Guardian. He was expelled from Pakistan in May 2013 and is currently covering the country from London. Educated in Dublin, Walsh started his career at The Sunday Business Post in 1998. A year later he won an Irish national media award for Social and Campaigning Journalism and moved to Kenya to work as a freelance journalist. Based in Nairobi, Walsh travelled widely across Sub-Saharan Africa to report for The Independent of London and The Irish Times. In 2004 he joined The Guardian as the paper?s correspondent for Afghanistan and Pakistan and moved to Islamabad. In January 2012 he moved to The New York Times as Pakistan bureau chief. On May 9 2013, Walsh learned by letter that the Pakistan Ministry of Interior, citing ?undesirable activities?, cancelled his visas that previously was valid until January 2014 and he had 72 hours to leave the country.