Secret Pakistan

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Secret Pakistan is a two-part documentary by the BBC, first aired on 26 October 2011.{{cite news|last=Collyns|first=Sam|title=Double Cross|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016ltpv|newspaper=BBC|date=26 October 2011}} It included claims by mid-ranking Taliban commanders that they had been taught bomb-making by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and suggestions that the ISI had tipped off high-ranking al-Qaeda figures about imminent American attacks.{{cite news|last=Gardham|first=Duncan|title=Pakistan 'still running Taliban training camps'|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/8848305/Pakistan-still-running-Taliban-training-camps.html|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=26 October 2011}} The series generated controversy after Pakistan blocked BBC World News claiming it contained "anti-Pakistan" content and that the program was one sided.{{cite news|last=Ahmed|first=Issam|title=Why Pakistan pulled the BBC from airwaves|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2011/1130/Why-Pakistan-pulled-the-BBC-from-airwaves|newspaper=The Christian Science Monitor|date=30 November 2011}}

Reception

It received an audience of 1 million (4.1%) at 9pm.{{cite news|last=Deans|first=Jason|title=TV Ratings|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/nov/03/frozen-planet-david-attenborough-bbc1|newspaper=Guardian (UK)|date=3 November 2011}}

The British newspaper The Independent called it "intriguing and depressing," although the reviewer felt the program should have focused more on the trustworthiness of American intentions towards Pakistan.{{cite news|last=Sutcliffe|first=Tom|title=Last Night's Viewing: Secret Pakistan, BBC2; The Impressions Show, BBC1|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/last-nights-viewing-secret-pakistan-bbc2-the-impressions-show-bbc1-6256354.html|newspaper=The Independent|date=3 November 2011}}

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