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Diary

My trip to Pakistan’s ‘Jihadi Disneyland’

17 February 2018

9:00 AM

17 February 2018

9:00 AM

Not so long ago, Barack Obama called Waziristan ‘the most dangerous place in the world’. It was the losing front in the war on terror, a lawless region in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan infested with Taleban and terrorism. Today, thanks to the Pakistan army, even a risk-averse hack like me can go there with scarcely a tremor.

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