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The lone surviving gunman from Mumbai attacks last November has been telling a court in India about his recruitment in Pakistan. Rand Corporation analyst Christine Fair tells host Lisa Mullins that Indians are wondering whether those who planned the attack in Pakistan will face trial.
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Today on The World: gaping holes in the security of one of Afghanistan’s most dangerous cities; a former Soviet space program official recalls the day he heard about Americans landing on the moon; and tensions are rising due to a water shortage throughout the Middle East.
A new Pentagon report calls for a major overhaul of the prison system in Afghanistan. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with New York Times correspondent Eric Schmitt about concerns that Afghan jails are churning out a new generation of Taliban militants, even as the US is trying to combat fighters already on the ground.
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James Murray reports on what Canadian soldiers found when they conducted an unnannounced check of police checkpoints in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar. There was evidence of some gaping holes in the city’s security. Murray is embedded with the Canadian forces.
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In part 3 of his series on the Taliban, Charles Sennott travels to Afghanistan to try to revisit a girls school he reported on two years ago. The school was set up by an American couple who lost their son on September 11, 2001. But the school they funded in his memory now appears to be under the control of the Taliban. Listen
In Part Two of our series on the Taliban, Charles Sennott reports on Pakistan’s new internal war on terror, and how the country has turned against the movement it once supported.
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The year 2001 marked the end of Taliban rule in Afghanistan. But its leaders and fighters have regrouped. Reporter Charles Sennott has the first in a series of reports on resurgent influence of the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Listen
In the final part of our series on the Taliban, Charles Sennott sat down with former Taliban leaders, clerics and US counter-insurgency experts to try to discover the minds of the Taliban and whether the US military is making any progress in understanding them. >>>Listen to Part IV (Photo by Seamus Murphy/VII)
The United States has launched a major military operation in southern Afghanistan aimed at getting Helmand Province back from the Taliban. The World’s Jeb Sharp reports that the battle is being seen as part of the new Obama Administration strategy.
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Pakistan is sealing parts of its border with Afghanistan, trying to prevent Taliban militants from escaping a major US military operation that’s just been launched in Afghanistan’s Helmand province. Anchor Lisa Mullins gets the latest from the BBC’s Mike Wooldridge in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.
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The BBC’s Orla Guerin reports that a police crackdown in Pakistan’s Punjab province is getting results. Several Taliban cells have been broken up and two potential bombers arrested. Listen
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Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Imran Khan, a former cricket star in Pakistan…now head of his own political party there. Listen
