To live or to perish forever : two tumultuous years in Pakistan / Nicholas Schmidle.
2009
DS389 .S36 2009 (Mapit)
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To live or to perish forever : two tumultuous years in Pakistan / Nicholas Schmidle.
Author
Schmidle, Nicholas.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780805089387
0805089381
0805089381
Publication Details
New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2009.
Language
English
Description
xii, 254 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Call Number
DS389 .S36 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
954.9105/3092
B
B
Summary
Freelance journalist Nicholas Schmidle takes readers to Pakistan's rioting streets, to Taliban camps in the North-West Frontier Province, and on many surprising adventures as he provides a contemporary history of this country long riven by internal conflict. With the intimacy and good humor available only to the most fearless and open-eyed reporters, Schmidle narrates the most turbulent period of Pakistan's recent history, a time when President Pervez Musharraf lost his power and the Taliban found theirs, and when Americans began to realize that Pakistan's fate is inextricably linked with our own. Schmidle entered Pakistan in February 2006, befriended a radical cleric (who became an enemy of the state and was killed), came to crave the smell of tear gas (because it assured him that he was sufficiently close to the action), was deported by the Pakistani authorities, managed to get back into the country, and was chased out a second time.--From publisher description.
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