BBC World Service - 9/11: The New Frontier

9/11: The New Frontier

On the front line

On the seventh anniversary of 9/11, BBC World Service looks at why the remote region straddling Afghanistan and Pakistan is a key stronghold for groups linked to al Qaeda. Kate Clark meets a Taleban commander who tells her why his movement continues to resist US forces.

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Pashtun identity
Pashtuns from both sides of the border discuss the reality of foreign intervention with Lyse Doucet.
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Tribal areas
Seven years on from the 9/11 attacks, the battlelines are drawn in the border areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Marcus George reports.
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The gates of Kabul
Lyse Doucet talks to the former governor of Wardak province
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Inside Jalalabad
Martin Patience explores the Afghan city suffering the impact of Taleban raids
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Zardari's fight
Barbara Plett looks at whether Pakistan's new president will take a new approach to Islamic militancy
- Listen 4 mins 40 secs

Interviews

Border witness
A different account of a conflict: how one New York Times journalist made an impromptu visit to a Taleban commander's house.
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A common enemy
Rehman Malik, head of Pakistan's interior ministry tells Owen Bennett-Jones that a united front is needed to tackle the Taleban
- Listen 3 mins 48 secs
Former Taleban envoy
Abdul Hakim Mujahid, the former representative of the Taleban in New York, talks to Lyse Doucet.
- Listen 2 mins 20 secs
The Afghan MP
Syed Mahmoud Gilani, MP from the province of Ghazni, where problems are getting worse.
- Listen 3 mins 5 secs