Pamela Constable

Islamabad, Pakistan

Foreign correspondent covering Afghanistan, Pakistan, South Asia, Latin America and immigration

Education: Brown University, BA in American civilization

Pamela Constable is a staff writer for The Washington Post's foreign desk. She completed a tour as Afghanistan/Pakistan bureau chief in 2019, and served as a South Asia bureau chief based in India from 1999 to 2005. She also reported from Iraq in 2004 and 2005. She previously covered immigration issues and immigrant communities while based in Washington for The Post. Before joining The Post in 1994, she was a reporter, editor and foreign correspondent for the Boston Globe from 1982 to 1994, reporting mainly from Central and South America and the Caribbean. She was a reporter for the Baltimore
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The Chilean president’s D.C. visit took me back to Pinochet’s rule

Gabriel Boric attended ceremonies for Salvador Allende, killed in the 1973 CIA-backed coup, and an exiled diplomat killed in Washington three years later.

September 25, 2023
Chilean President Gabriel Boric after laying a flower Saturday at the memorial to Orlando Letelier, an exiled former Chilean diplomat, and his American assistant, Ronni Moffitt, who were killed in a 1976 car bombing at Sheridan Circle in D.C.

In a town near Kyiv, painful memories linger a year after Russia’s retreat

The town of Moshchun was a site of heavy fighting as Russian forces tried, and failed, to conquer the Ukrainian capital. Residents have returned and are rebuilding.

June 24, 2023
Recent graves of men who died in the current war with Russia lie amid older family tombstones in Moshchun, Ukraine, which was badly damaged during weeks of fighting last year.

Ukrainians adjust to life with a constant threat from airstrikes

Sirens warning of Russian airstrikes are now routine in Kyiv. For some residents, that has led to potentially dangerous complacency, for others it has led to a fatalistic ennui.

June 21, 2023
People shelter inside a metro station during an air raid alert, amid Russia’s missile attack on Ukraine in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday.

To fight Putin, Russian militias aid Ukraine with cross-border attacks

With cross-border raids, militias aim to give Russian civilians a taste of the death and destruction that President Vladimir Putin’s war has wrought on Ukraine.

June 17, 2023
Members of the Russian Volunteer Corps near the Russian border in Ukraine on May 24.

Ukraine flood victims ferried to safety; shelling intensifies after dark

The still-unexplained collapse of the Kakhovka dam has forced Ukrainians from their homes.

June 7, 2023
A Ukrainian soldier carries a pet dog through flooded Kherson city on Wednesday as residents evacuate their homes.

Dam blast floods villages, but occupation-weary Ukrainians vow to stay

The collapse will make it more difficult for Ukrainian troops to reach Russian forces, but it also cuts water to Russian-occupied Crimea.

June 6, 2023
Valentyna Mirilko, 41, stands by her rabbits as her family begins to pack up their home in Fedorivka, Ukraine, after the collapse of the Kakhovka dam.

In Dnipro, deadly missile attacks prove there is no escaping Russia’s war

Back-to-back strikes in greater Dnipro were a reminder that Moscow's relentless barrage of missiles can deliver death and destruction at any moment.

June 5, 2023
Artem Sannikov surveys his shattered apartment in Pidhorodne, a town outside Dnipro, Ukraine, that Russia attacked over the weekend.

Taliban moving senior officials to Kandahar. Will it mean a harder line?

The remote Afghan city, the Taliban's spiritual center, is hosting more regime officials and foreign dignitaries as Hibatullah Akhundzada consolidates power.

June 4, 2023
Kandahar, birthplace of the Taliban, begins coming to life early on a May morning.

Imran Khan increasingly isolated as Pakistan’s army pressures allies

Scores of aides and supporters have abandoned the powerful former prime minister since his arrest May 9 and a broader military crackdown.

May 28, 2023
Security personnel escort former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan out of court on May 19 in Lahore.

Court releases Imran Khan from custody, easing Pakistani tensions for now

Bail could calm the protesters in Pakistan, but the opposition leader and former prime minister could still be rearrested on other charges.

May 12, 2023
Police escort Imran Khan, Pakistan's former prime minister, as he arrives at the high court Friday in Islamabad.