Who Kidnapped Najam Sethi? And Who Didn’t?

Originally published at the History News Network, March 15, 2004. The letters section of The New York Review of Books for February 12, 2004 contains a heated exchange between Bernard-Henry Levy, author of Who Killed Daniel Pearl? (2003) and William Dalrymple, who reviewed Levy s book in the December 4 issue of the NYRB (“Murder in Karachi”). As it happens, I have [ ]