An Interview with Staeve Coll on Pakistan, the Taliban, Osama Bin Laden and Bush's Foreign Policy: Pakistan is Burning

Published: February 16, 2008, 2:45 am

An Interview With Steve Coll on Pakistan, the Taliban, Osama Bin Laden and Bush's Foreign PolicyPakistan is BurningBy WAJAHAT ALISteve Coll is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist. He is the author of Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and The Bin Ladens, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001ALI: Benazir Bhutto was assassinated over a month ago; a suicide bomber near Peshawar killed 13 people this week; two officials with the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission were kidnapped and a Pakistani ambassador to Afghanistan disappeared at the Khyber Pass, and you have General elections in a week. Is the Economist correct in proclaiming Pakistan "the most dangerous nation on Earth," or is that an overblown statement?COLL: Well, something is afoot in Pakistan that is really dangerous for Pakistanis. There is a real insurgency coming out now that the country has never experienced before, and it's aimed at the Pakistani state and it's gaining ground. It's

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