In the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks and the Obama administration's announcement of troop increases in Afghanistan, Pakistan has emerged as a central front in the War on Terror.
Pakistan: Letting the Terrorists Win
Published April 17, 2009
Sarah Stuteville, for the Pulitzer Center
Pale columns of smoke are rising from a sea of blue tents stretching into the distance of the flat khaki plain that is Jellozai, a refugee camp eight miles outside of Peshawar, home to an estimated 43,000 people fleeing violence in the tribal regions not far from here.
It's late in the day. Nearing evening actually, and I'm nervously checking the clock on our taxi's dashboard as we bounce on the rocky dirt road past the crumbled mud remains of Afghan homes, the last refugees that occupied this forgotten feeling landscape. We don't have permission to be here and had promised ourselves we'll be back on the road to Islamabad by 5 pm. Which was now fifteen minutes ago.
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Alex Stonehill and Sarah Stuteville, co-founders of the Common Language Project, will share some of their mult
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Sarah Stuteville is a print and online reporter with Seattle-based www.clpmag.org, an award-winning nonprofit multimedia publishing house whose mission is to engage, educate and inform Americans of...
