Pakistan: Eye of the Storm
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Pakistan: Eye of the Storm
- 10/01/2024
- Posted by: Talib Hussain
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- Pakistan is an easy place for a journalist to work. Most Pakistanis, from
policemen to politicians, shopkeepers to soldiers, love to talk about pol
itics. Admittedly, the more they know the less willing they are to speak
on the record but nevertheless Pakistan remains a very open country.
Indeed, Pakistan’s willingness to tolerate the scrutiny of local and for
eign journalists is one of the reasons it has an image problem. Countries
such as Saudi Arabia manage to avoid hostile media coverage simply by
refusing to grant journalists sufficient access to do their work.
My first thanks, then, are to the many Pakistanis who were so will
ing to share their views with a foreign visitor. I should mention in par
ticular the BBC’s long-standing Islamabad correspondent Zaffar Abbas,
who was remarkably generous with both his time and his unrivalled
knowledge of Pakistan. For over a decade now, he has had the unenvi
able task of explaining the finer points of Pakistani politics to succes
sive BBC correspondents sent from London. Beyond expressing my
thanks, all I can say is that I look forward, one day, to reading a book
written by him.
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