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Kathy Gannon has worked for The Associated Press since 1988 in Pakistan and Afghanistan, a period that spans the mysterious death of Pakistan's dictator Zia-ul Haq, the withdrawal of Russian soldiers from Afghanistan, the bitter Afghan civil war between Islamic factions that took power following the collapse of the communist government there in 1992.
Kathy Gannon was in Kabul when the Taliban regime took power in 1996 and was the only western journalist allowed to return to Kabul by the Taliban, three weeks before their collapse in November 2001. She followed the political careers of Pakistani leaders Benazir Bhutto, Nawaz Sharif and Gen. Pervez Musharraf.
She covered the underground nuclear explosion in Pakistan and the relentless wrangling over Kashmir between uneasy neighbors Pakistan and India.
She has received two AP Managing editor's awards for coverage of the underground nuclear explosion in Pakistan in 1998 and the collapse of the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001. She received the AP Gramling award for journalism in 1996, the International Women's Media Foundation Courage in Journalism in 2002 and an Overseas Press Club of America Hal Boyle Award Citation for Excellence in 2001. Was nominated by AP in 2002 for the Pulitzer Prize.
She also received two honorary doctorates from Laurentian University and Nippissing University.
In 2003-4 she received Edward R. Murrow Press fellowship at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and has been published in 2004 in the New Yorker, Foreign Affairs, Wall Street Journal and L.A. Times.
Born in Timmins, Ontario, was city editor at the Kelowna Courier and worked in several Canadian newspapers before going overseas. She has lived in Japan, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
She is married to Naeem Pasha, architect and artist. She resides in Pakistan with her husband and stepdaughter Kyla Pria Pasha.
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