To Live or to Perish Forever

Join us as journalist Nick Schmidle, who was deported from Pakistan in January 2008 after writing a controversial New York Times Magazine article entitled “Next Gen Taliban,” discusses his just-released book, To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan. Schmidle’s book chronicles his time exploring the outer reaches of Pakistan’s remotest provinces, investigating the murky relationship between Pakistan’s intelligence services and the militants threatening the region, and providing an insider’s look at Benazir Bhutto’s assassination in 2007.

Participants

Nicholas Schmidle
Fellow, American Strategy Program, New America Foundation
Author, To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan

Moderator
Steve Coll
President, New America Foundation
Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Author, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001