Inside Pakistan: A Trip Report

Nicholas Schmidle

Nicholas Schmidle is a fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC, and a freelance writer whose work focuses on the intersection of culture, religion and politics in Asia. He has reported from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Central Asia and Iran, and his work has been published in Slate, New Republic, Washington Post and other publications. He lived in Pakistan as a fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs from February 2006 through January 2008, when he left under threat of deportation following the publication of his “Next-Gen Taliban” in the New York Times Magazine. He is now writing a book about his experience in Pakistan, to be published by Henry Holt.


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