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Is Pakistan Ripe for an Islamic Revolution?
Recent events in Pakistan have increased alarm that a country with nuclear weapons is vulnerable to a Taliban-style Islamist revolution. We talk with Pakistanis and American experts. Also, Bush Administration officials may be tried for torture after all, and the former vice president who won't keep quiet.
By Warren Olney • • 1h 0m ListenRecent events in Pakistan have increased alarm that a country with nuclear weapons is vulnerable to a Taliban-style Islamist revolution. We talk with Pakistanis and American experts. Also, Bush Administration officials may be tried for torture after all, breaking a post-White House tradition of silence, Dick Cheney won't keep his voice down.
Banner image: Activists of civil society torch an effigy of a Taliban during a protest in Karachi on April 6, 2009, against the public flogging of a veiled woman. Photo: Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty Images
