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It was long-listed for a Man Booker Prize. A few times, Hanif had indications that “Mangoes” had reached powerful people. A general approached him at a party and asked who his sources were; others asked how he had managed to unravel the assassination plot. Zia’s son sent a message to complain—but, Hanif said, it was clear that he hadn’t read the book. Remarkably, there was no official backlash. “I think I was helped by the fact that no one in the military reads novels,” he said. 32 THE NEW YORKER, MAY 9, 2016 The book’s other great advantage was that it was written in English.
The investigators found that over the previous decade Silver earned a hundred and twenty thousand dollars annually in base salary, and had received more than three million dollars in referral fees, all from cases involving plaintiffs’ exposure to asbestos. The investigators tracked down the clients. Many had been treated by Dr. Robert Taub, who ran a clinic at Columbia University dedicated to research on mesothelioma, a deadly form of cancer that is linked to exposure to asbestos. Taub, in turn, suggested that his patients retain Weitz & Luxenberg in connection with any legal claims they might have.
In his pieces, was shot six times by unknown gunmen as he drove to work. Since then, Mir says, his television station has stopped reporting aggressively on Balochistan. In 2012, Hanif was asked by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan to write a series about dissidents who had disappeared in Balochistan. Hanif ’s reporting was compiled in a small book, “The Baloch Who Is Not Missing & Others Who Are,” and also 34 THE NEW YORKER, MAY 9, 2016 published in English-language newspapers. After the stories came out, Hanif received a call from an old Air Force friend who had become a general.