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Frost Over the World

Asif Ali Zardari

The Pakistani president discusses the conflict in the Swat valley.

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More than one million people have fled their homes to escape the fighting [GALLO/GETTY]

In this episode of Frost over the World, Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan’s president, talks to Sir David Frost about the conflict raging between government troops and Taliban fighters in the country’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP).

This episode of Frost over the World aired from Friday, May 15, 2009.

Asif Ali Zardari

 

The president of Pakistan talks about the conflict raging between government troops and Taliban fighters in the Swat valley and about his late wife, Benazir Bhutto.

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David Aaronovitch
 

 

Author and journalist David Aaronovitch discusses the popularity of conspiracy theories.