One Pint Short

Solitude is strength, to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness...

Sunday, 21 June 2009

Risks and real dangers that comes with the job...

Reporting from Islamabad, Pakistan -- David Rohde, a New York Times reporter who was kidnapped seven months ago by the Taliban, escaped from a compound in Pakistan by jumping over a wall, the newspaper's website reported Saturday.

Rohde, 41, recounted to his wife shortly after gaining his freedom Friday night that he and interpreter Tahir Ludin escaped their captors in the North Waziristan region but that their driver, Asadullah Mangal, opted to remain behind.
Posted by Melissa Chi at 19:27

No comments:

Post a Comment

Newer Post Older Post Home
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Show me some love

Buy Me a Coffee at ko-fi.com

About Me

My photo
Melissa Chi
“That was very much her philosophy of life — to not be limited by fear or narrow definitions, to not build walls around ourselves and to do our best to find kinship and beauty in unexpected places.” Maya Soetoro-Ng, Barack Obama’s half-sister talked about their mother
View my complete profile

Archive

  • ►  2016 (2)
    • ►  April (2)
  • ►  2013 (1)
    • ►  February (1)
  • ►  2012 (2)
    • ►  April (1)
    • ►  February (1)
  • ►  2011 (1)
    • ►  January (1)
  • ►  2010 (13)
    • ►  August (1)
    • ►  July (2)
    • ►  June (5)
    • ►  May (1)
    • ►  April (2)
    • ►  February (2)
  • ▼  2009 (62)
    • ►  November (1)
    • ►  October (1)
    • ►  September (1)
    • ►  July (2)
    • ▼  June (8)
      • In a Suburban Gangland, Young Lives Cut Short
      • Drug test result "mix up" in Malaysia
      • Drinking and driving in Malaysia
      • Risks and real dangers that comes with the job...
      • Real-Life: Homeless to Harvard
      • Reporting from Iran
      • Interesting reads on Malaysia
      • Time running out for newspapers
    • ►  May (5)
    • ►  April (5)
    • ►  March (16)
    • ►  February (9)
    • ►  January (14)
  • ►  2008 (152)
    • ►  December (11)
    • ►  November (26)
    • ►  October (7)
    • ►  September (7)
    • ►  August (7)
    • ►  July (8)
    • ►  June (24)
    • ►  May (37)
    • ►  April (16)
    • ►  March (9)
Watermark theme. Powered by Blogger.