Friend or Foe? US -- Pakistan Relations February 19, 2013

Pakistan today represents a flash point for the most pivotal ideological, cultural, political, and religious battles of our time. Constable takes us on a panoramic tour of contemporary Pakistan, exploring the fears and frustrations, dreams and beliefs that animate the lives of ordinary citizens in this nuclear-armed nation, and presents both an empathic and alarming look inside one of the world’s most violent and vexing countries.

Pamela Constable is a foreign correspondent and former deputy foreign editor at The Washington Post. Since 1998, she has reported extensively from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq and India. She is the author of PLAYING WITH FIRE: Pakistan at War with Itself. A graduate of Brown University, she is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a former fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She is the founder of the Afghan Stray Animal League, which supports a shelter and clinic for needy small animals in Afghanistan.