The volume presents reports of noted journalist Shyam Bhatia on conflicts in the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East. He presents eyewitness accounts of his experiences as a foreign correspondent to narrate the stories of those who endure warfare and the risks faced by the journalist on the ground in conflict scenarios. He speaks of his detention by the Afghans, detailing their struggle against the occupying forces of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s. He also discusses his experiences and observations in southern Sudan, breaking stories such as that of the Israel-Egypt peace treaty and his encounter with the Marsh Arabs fighting against Saddam Hussein in Iraq. He includes accounts of his interview with PLO leader, Yasser Arafat. He also presents his reporting on happenings within India.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Shyam Bhatia
Shyam Bhatia, Editor of Asian Affairs magazine, has been a staff foreign correspondent for London's Observer newspaper based in Cairo and Jerusalem, and US correspondent and Foreign Editor of the Deccan Herald. A frequent visitor in the past to Pakistan and an Arabic speaker, he has won the Foreign Reporter of the Year Award in the British media and is the author of India's Nuclear Bomb, Nuclear Rivals in the Middle East, Brighter than the Baghdad Sun and Contemporary Afghanistan. Bhatia and Benazir first met at Oxford where he refused to support her campaign to obtain an honorary degree for her father and then Pakistan Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. A bitter fight over the issue of the honorary degree later gave way to an enduring friendship, supplemented by regular heart-to-heart talks and interviews in London and Dubai. Some details of what Benazir told Bhatia about her family and about Pakistan's defense and foreign policies remained confidential in her life time and are revealed for the first time in this book.
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