Taliban Generation in Karachi

Pakistan’s Taliban Generation (Exclusive)

Thursday 12 March 2009
Reporter - Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Three hours’ drive north of Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, the flat highway gives way to the windy roads that weave through the Hindu Kush Mountains. At the mouth of the Swat valley lies the town of Qambar. A desolate unmanned police station is the only sign that the government’s writ was once established here.