. >> in 2001, i was the cia station chief in islamabad, pakistan.esponsibility for all intelligence gathering operations in both pakistan and afghanistan. >> in august of 2001, we first got word that these eight individuals, including two young americans, had been arrested by taliban security in kabul. the u.s. embassy procured the assistance of pakistani lawyer and he is dealing with the legal authorities inside afghanistan. but this was not an intelligence matter for us at this point. so gathering information concerning these arrestees was not high in our priority list. in fact it was basically off the bottom. >> the cell was a concrete room with a concrete floor. the room was very dirty. chipped paint. i would write in my journal. i'd be sitting in the cold with a blanket. oh lord jesus, i struggle so much with fear here. every moment of every day, i battle with the fear that either a taliban or an angry terrorist will kill me. >> the taliban actually had serious evidence against these people. in fact, they had broken taliban law. it seemed prett

to islamabad for a long time. there's a positive perspective for pakistan in all of this. there's a positive future economic prospect. the road has not been and is not developing in fact, what's happening is alternatives are being explored that go around pakistan for a variety of reasons. one of the things that i would hope in this new review that i called for would be to sit down and find a way on the positive side of the agenda to explain to pakistan what that region could look like in ten years. the infrastructure development we've been talking about now for at least a decade, china is willing to put serious money on the table. that's a big change. we ought to be able to figure out how to to leverage that. i agree with the counselor in afghanistan, that is increasingly confident and stable and is a contributor to development and stability in the region. it opens up a whole different prospect. for pakistan and other countries in the region that doesn't really exist right now and hasn't existed. we can help, we americans can help find a way to develop this different alter

would add this is one of the arguments that we have, and others have been trying to get across to islamabad for some time. there is a positive perspective of afghanistan for all of this and whether it is the silk road or the china initiative or whatever it s and there is a positive future economic prospect for afghanistan down the road, and that road is not, and it has not been, and it is not develop iing, and in fact, what is happening is alternatives are being explored to go around pakistan for a variety of reasons. one of the things in this new review that i called for is to sit down and to find a way on the positive side of the agenda to explain to pakistan what that region should look like with a stable afghanistan and with the pakistan wired into the interconnection of the trade and energy and infrastructure that we are talking about for at least a decade. china is going to put some serious money on the table, and that is a big change. we need to be figuring out how to leverage, that and also in this alternative vision, i agree with counselor moui, that with afghanistan that is increa

that's over three times the distance between islamabad and new delhi, india. >>> fox sports reporterandrews revealing in an interview that she was diagnosed with cervical cancer. the great news is she is now completely free of the disease. that is the cnbc news update. kelly, back down to you. >> wow. >> that's good news for her. >> yes. wow. had no idea obviously. thank you. >>> all right. let's send it over to seema modi for another earnings alert. >> looking at texas instrument reporting earnings well above expectations. 1.02 is what the company reported. that does include 14 cents of items that were not included in the company's guidance. if you take that out, adjusted earnings of 88 cents still well above expectations. revenue a beetd as well. the press release the company says revenue increased 7% from the same quarter a year ago as demand from our products remained strong in the automotive market. automotive market has been one place of growth for texas instruments over the past one year. looking at shares just about flat. dipping into negative territory after hours. back to y