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Inside the HQ we saw offices with banks of televisions, men monitoring every channel, and one officer showed my father a thick file of cuttings which contained every mention of the army in that day's papers.
在总部里，我们看到很多办公室里有一整面墙的电视，军官们监看着每个频道。一位军官将一本塞满简报的厚资料夹拿给我父亲看：任何当天有关军方的消息的报纸，在里面都找得到。
He was amazed. The army seemed much more effective at PR than our politicians.
父亲觉得很惊奇，军方似乎比我们的政客更懂得去维护公共关系。
We were taken into a hall to wait for the general.
我们被带进一个大厅等候将军。
On the walls were photographs of all our army chiefs, the most powerful men in our country including dictators like Musharraf and scary Zia.
大厅的墙上挂满了军方所有领袖的照片。他们是这个国家最有权势的人，包括穆沙拉夫和齐亚·哈克。
A servant with white gloves brought us tea and biscuits and small meat samosas that melted in our mouths.
一个戴着白手套的服务人员为我们送上茶、饼干和会在我们口中融化的迷你鲜肉咖喱饺。
When General Abbas came in we all stood up.
当阿巴斯将军进来时，我们全体起立。
He began by telling us about the military operation in Swat, which he presented as a victory.
他从斯瓦特的军事行动开始谈起。他以“胜利”两字来形容它。
He said 128 soldiers and 1,600 terrorists had been killed in the operation.
他说有128名士兵牺牲和1600名恐怖分子在那次行动中被击毙。
After he finished we could ask questions.
当他说完以后，我们可以提问题。
We had been told to prepare questions in advance and I had made a list of seven or eight.
我们被告知要提前准备问题，所以我列了一张有七八个问题的清单。
Shiza had laughed and said he wouldn't be able to answer so many.
西莎大笑，说将军可没有办法回答那么多问题。
I sat in the front row and was the first to be called on.
我坐在前排，是第一个被叫上前提问的。
I asked, 'Two or three months ago you told us Fazlullah and his deputy were shot and injured, and then you said they were in Swat and sometimes you say they're in Afghanistan.
我的问题是：“两三个月前，你们告诉我们法兹鲁拉和他的副手中弹受伤，然后你们说他们在斯瓦特，后来你们又说他们在阿富汗。
How did they get there? If you have so much information, why can't you catch them?'
他们怎么去到那里的？如果你们有那么多消息来源，为什么你们抓不到他们？”
