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Friday, May 09, 2008 --- 75 days ago http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/08/995709.aspx
 By Carol Grisanti, NBC News Producer
NBC News Mushtaq Yusufzai is the first recipient of the Agence France Press Kate Webb Award which was set up to honor one of the news agency’s top foreign correspondents who died in 2007.
Yusufzai, 32, won the prize for his in-depth reporting and analysis on the complex situation in Pakistan’s tribal areas.
His daily reports for "The News," one of Pakistan’s leading English language daily newspapers and his blogs for msnbc.com were cited as exceptional work in dangerous and difficult circumstances.
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Taliban commander Faqir Mohammed, left, speaks with NBC News Mushtaq Yusufzai, center, at his remote mountain top stronghold near the Pakistan/ Afghanistan border with Faqir's bodyguards standing by in rear.
In pursuit of the story, Yusufzai has been wounded by the Taliban, caught in cross-fire between Taliban militants and Pakistan’s security forces, dodged U.S. predator drone attacks, and was arrested and harassed by Pakistan’s intelligence agents – all while on assignment for NBC News. ...( read more ) ... |
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