Reporting From Tribal Areas Highly Risky
By Zofeen Ebrahim, KARACHI, Nov 28 (IPS)
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=44896

Reporting from Peshawar -- hub of Pakistan’s tribal areas, currently the focus of a pincer movement between the Pakistan army and the US-led forces in neighbouring Afghanistan -- has become a highly risky affair. [...] On Nov 11 Khadija Abdul Qahar, a Canadian formerly known as Beverly Giesbrecht, who publishes a web-based magazine, Jihad Unspun, was reportedly abducted along with her translator and guide, both Pakistani nationals. The group was said to be traveling to the town of Miramshah in the North Waziristan area when they were stopped and abducted by a group of armed men. Jihad Unspun has the stated objective of presenting uncensored reporting of the US's "war on terrorism," and its articles are often highly critical of US foreign policy and military interventions. However, it is also suspected to be a front for the CIA, set up to monitor traffic from Internet users who support the al-Qaeda. [...]

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