Dispatches

Pakistan's Taliban Generation

A young boy who wishes to join the Taliban

Award-winning Pakistani journalist Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy investigates how the war on terror is creating a generation of child terrorists in her homeland - children prepared to kill both inside and outside Pakistan.

Sharmeen investigates how the Taliban are recruiting increasingly younger fighters to their campaign. She meets a 14-year-old boy in her home city of Karachi who is desperate to become a suicide bomber. She then follows the elite unit of the anti-terror police squad - who warn that the Taliban are hiding out in the city's sprawling slums and recruiting children from small madrassas in deprived neighbourhoods.

Sharmeen also interviews a Taliban commander responsible for child recruitment, who reveals that children as young as five are now being used by the Taliban.

Clips from Pakistan's Taliban Generation

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First Shown

Date Time Channel
Monday 16 March 2009 8PM Channel 4

Last Shown

Date Time Channel
Friday 20 March 2009 1.40AM Channel 4

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