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Behind the News
The Fixer
September 1, 2010 02:17 PMThrough three decades of war in neighboring Afghanistan, Pakistani journalist Rahimullah Yusufzai has been the ultimate fixer, the man foreign reporters—from Lawrence Wright to Seymour Hersh—go to for the lay of the land or to arrange a hard-to-get interview with... Continue reading
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On the Job
A World of Trouble
July 1, 2010 05:53 PMIn November 2008, the Pakistani army launched its first major offensive against militants in the tribal areas of the country. I was working as a reporter for The Christian Science Monitor and had arrived in the border town of... Continue reading
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Feature
Musharraf’s Monster
November 5, 2007 12:00 PMOne evening last June, during an oppressively hot summer in Islamabad, I attended a protest organized by Pakistani television journalists. A fiery stream lit Constitution Avenue—the broad thoroughfare is lined with the state’s most powerful political institutions—as a torch-carrying... Continue reading
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