Search Results for: Pakistan

Defending the Arsenal

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In an unstable Pakistan, can nuclear warheads be kept safe?

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Nov 16, 2009
Length: 6 minutes (1,663 words)

Inside the Islamic Emirate

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We’re in Pakistan, I thought to myself. We’re dead. Eight days earlier, a Taliban faction had kidnapped me along with an Afghan journalist, Tahir Luddin, and our driver, Asad Mangal, during a reporting trip just outside Kabul.

Published: Oct 18, 2009
Length: 25 minutes (6,454 words)

Eight years and counting …

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Osama bin Laden is believed to be in mountains on the Afghanistan/Pakistan border. But is he any nearer to being captured?

Source: The Guardian
Published: Jun 25, 2009
Length: 8 minutes (2,064 words)