Secret Pakistan
Osama bin Laden dies in a US Navy SEAL raid in Abbottabad in May 2011, carried out without telling Pakistan, and this two-part series asks what that secrecy reveals about a decade of alliance and betrayal between the two countries. Filmed in Pakistan and Afghanistan, it puts CIA officers, Western diplomats, and serving Taliban commanders on camera, including fighters who describe receiving weapons, training, and safe haven from Pakistan's military establishment. Those accounts sit alongside the accusation, voiced by American and coalition officials, that Pakistan's intelligence service played a double game, accepting billions in US aid while sheltering the insurgency killing coalition soldiers across the border. Pakistani officials deny the claims on camera, and the series lets the contradiction stand rather than resolving it. The access is the story here: getting Taliban commanders to detail their support networks on record is rare, and it turns an argument usually conducted in diplomatic language into a set of specific, named claims from people on both sides of it.