Pamela Constable is an American reporter and editor at ''

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''. She has specialized in coverage of

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and

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. Constable attended

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. Her first paid job in journalism began in 1974 at ''

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'' in

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Q&A "A Reporter's View of Afghanistan" November 17, 2019, viewed August 11, 2020 In the 1980s she was a correspondent for ''

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'' and then ''

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'', covering Latin American affairs. Constable was ''The Washington Post''s

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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

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.Books by Pamela Constable
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Personal life

Constable has practiced animal rescue on her foreign assignments, including a donkey and several dogs. Her father-in-law was the bishop of the Methodist Church of Chile.

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