Pamela Constable

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. In the 1980s she was a correspondent for ''The Baltimore Sun'' and then ''The Boston Globe'', covering Latin American affairs.

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.

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. Provided by Wikipedia