The documentary maker Sean Langan tells Peter Beaumont about the three-month ordeal that saw him kidnapped and threatened with death in tribal Pakistan. From The Guardian:
It was the moment documentary film-maker Sean Langan believed he was about to die.
After being held captive on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border by a group allied to the Taliban for three months, he was travelling to the place where, he had been told, he would finally be released.
The driver pulled over in the darkness of early morning for what his captors said was a toilet stop.
As a door opened, Langan could see, in the side mirror, one of the men accompanying him walking around the car and removing a pistol from the waistband of his trousers.
Told that his fixer was already dead, he waited for the shot. “It is the way I thought it was going to happen,” he said. “Shot on a road like that. Somewhere remote.”
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