Since the publication of Three Cups of Tea, Americans have lavished nearly $60 million on Greg Mortenson’s Central Asia Institute, to build schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Last week, four years after the book came out, someone — CBS’s 60 Minutes — finally visited the schools that Mortenson claims to have built, and found many empty, misused or nonexistent. Reading about the extent of financial irregularity and lack of oversight at CAI, is heartbreaking. But worse, I dread how the crumbling of Three Cups of Tea will reinforce American skepticism and Pakistani cynicism about positive efforts in the region. Continue reading Three Cups Of Tea Won’t Be Enough For Pakistan
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Three Cups Of Tea Won’t Be Enough For Pakistan
Since the publication of Three Cups of Tea, Americans have lavished nearly $60 million on Greg Mortenson’s Central Asia Institute, to build schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Last week, four years after the book came out, someone — CBS’s 60 Minutes — finally visited the schools that Mortenson claims to have built, and found many empty, misused or nonexistent. Reading about the extent of financial irregularity and lack of oversight at CAI, is heartbreaking. But worse, I dread how the crumbling of Three Cups of Tea will reinforce American skepticism and Pakistani cynicism about positive efforts in the region. Continue reading Three Cups Of Tea Won’t Be Enough For Pakistan 
Friday, April 22, 2011
60 minutes of American Fiction
By Fatima Rizvi
Recently, the world was shocked to find out that Greg Mortenson's autobiography 'Three cups of Tea' was based on fabricated anecdotes of his exploits in remote areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Mortenson's heartwarming tale of how the simple mountain villagers in Korphe, Pakistan, saved his life after he got lost during a perilous descent of K2, the world's second highest peak; how he repaid their kindness by returning to build them a school; and how he was subsequently kidnapped for eight days by the Taliban are apparently not even close to the truth. Read more...
Recently, the world was shocked to find out that Greg Mortenson's autobiography 'Three cups of Tea' was based on fabricated anecdotes of his exploits in remote areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Mortenson's heartwarming tale of how the simple mountain villagers in Korphe, Pakistan, saved his life after he got lost during a perilous descent of K2, the world's second highest peak; how he repaid their kindness by returning to build them a school; and how he was subsequently kidnapped for eight days by the Taliban are apparently not even close to the truth. Read more...
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