Pamela Constable

{{Short description|American newspaper journalists}}

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| known_for = Coverage of Afghanistan

| education = Ethel Walker School
Greenwich Country Day School

| alma_mater = Brown University

| employer = The Washington Post

| occupation = journalist

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| spouse = Mark Ashida (m. 1981–div.)
Arturo Arms Valenzuela (m. September 1986 – div.)

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|title=Pamela Constable and Mark Ashida to Marry in May

|work=The New York Times |date=October 26, 1980 |accessdate=August 11, 2020}}{{cite web |title=Statement by Arturo Valenzuela |publisher=Senate Foreign Relations Committee |archivedate=August 4, 2009 |url=http://foreign.senate.gov/testimony/2009/ValenzuelaTestimony090708a.pdf |date=July 8, 2009 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090804230955/http://foreign.senate.gov/testimony/2009/ValenzuelaTestimony090708a.pdf |accessdate=August 11, 2020}}

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Pamela Constable is an American reporter and editor at The Washington Post. She has specialized in coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Constable attended Brown University. Her first paid job in journalism began in 1974 at The Capital in Annapolis, Maryland.C-Span Q&A "A Reporter's View of Afghanistan" November 17, 2019, viewed August 11, 2020 In the 1980s she was a correspondent for The Baltimore Sun and then The Boston Globe, covering Latin American affairs.{{cite web |accessdate=August 11, 2020 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/28/style/pamela-constable-weds-a-professor.html |title=Pamela Constable Weds a Professor |website=The New York Times |date=September 28, 1986}}

Constable was The Washington Post{{'}}s bureau chief in Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2019 and previously served as the Post{{'}}s South Asia bureau chief between 1999 and 2005.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/pamela-constable/|title=Pamela Constable|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=2 September 2020}}

She is the author of two books about South Asia and the U.S. intervention there, Fragments of Grace: My Search for Meaning in the Strife of South Asia (2004) and Playing with Fire: Pakistan at War with Itself (2011), as well as the 1991 political history A Nation of Enemies: Chile Under Pinochet with Arturo Valenzuela.[https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Pamela+Constable Books by Pamela Constable] at amazon.com