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Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan
Henry Holt & Company
May 2009
On Sale: May 12, 2009
272 pages
ISBN: 0805089381
EAN: 9780805089387
Hardcover
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In To Live or to Perish Forever, Nicholas Schmidle takes readers to Pakistanβs 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 what was arguably the most turbulent period of Pakistanβs recent history, a time when President Pervez Musharraf lost his power and the Taliban found theirs, and when Americans began to realize that Pakistanβs fate is inextricably linked with our own. In February 2006 Schmidle had traveled to Pakistan hoping to learn about the place dubbed βthe most dangerous country in the world.β It was while there that he 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), and in the end, was deported by the Pakistani authorities, managed to get back into the country, and was chased out a second time.
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