Nicholas Schmidle

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Nicholas Schmidle writes for the New Yorker and is the author of To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan. His work has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine,...

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Reforming Pakistan’s ‘Dens of Terror’

Nicholas Schmidle / Truthdig Jan 23, 2007 Pakistan's "madrassas" have been described as "jihad universities" because of their ties to the Taliban and Islamic extremists, but a small-scale indigenous effort to reform the religious schools could be making more progress than the combined forces of the American, British and Pakistani governments. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )