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Book World: A correspondent revisits Pakistan s tangle of contradictions and violence
Bilal Qureshi, The Washington Post
Dec. 11, 2020
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The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches From a Precarious State
By Declan Walsh
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In December 2007, a 15-year-old Taliban suicide bomber assassinated former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto in Rawalpindi as she drove away from a campaign rally. Her murder and the ensuing political chaos sent shock waves through Washington corridors. It was a clear indication that nuclear-armed Pakistan was in free fall despite the U.S. alliance with President Pervez Musharraf.
That fall I had begun my journalism career as a reporting fellow at NPR s headquarters in D.C. On the day of Bhutto s assassination, as Pakistani cities exploded into chaos, I was asked to help work the phone lines to the country of my birth. A few days later, I was on a plane to Islamabad to contribute to aftermath coverage for a short stint. I may have k