willem marx talks about the border region between pakistan and afghanistan and iran, an area called balochistan, and the civil conflict that is happening there. this is about whatever. >> -- one hour. >> you're going to look, good evening and thank you for coming. you will look at a beautiful picture but that's willem. part of the place i know well and i recorded from as well. make a sign if you can't hear me. i'm going to tell you about "the wrong enemy" which is my book. "the wrong enemy: america in afghanistan, 2001-2014". it's the story of the war. i reported that for over 10 years from afghanistan. also in pakistan. i wanted to write a book for two

. >> coming up next on the half king bar and restaurant in new york city, carlotta gall and willem marx talk about their books. in "the wrong enemy," carlotta gall argues that following 9/11 the u.s. should have focused on pakistan instead of afghanistan. she says that the afghans have paid a heavy price for pakistan's treachery. willem marx talks about the border region between pakistan and afghanistan and iran, an area called balochistan, and the civil conflict that is happening there. this is about whatever. >> -- one hour. >> you're going to look, good evening and thank you for coming. you will look at a beautiful picture but that's willem. part of the place i know well and i recorded from as well. make a sign if you can't hear me. i'm going to tell you about "the wrong enemy" which is my book. "the wrong enemy: america in afghanistan, 2001-2014". it's the story of the war. i reported that for over 10 years from afghanistan. also in pakistan. i wanted to write a book

willem marx talks about the border region between pakistan and afghanistan and iran, an area called balochistan, and the civil conflict that is happening there. this is about whatever. >> -- one hour. >> you're going to look, good evening and thank you for coming. you will look at a beautiful picture but that's willem. part of the place i know well and i recorded from as well. make a sign if you can't hear me. i'm going to tell you about "the wrong enemy" which is my book. "the wrong enemy: america in afghanistan, 2001-2014". it's the story of the war. i reported that for over 10 years from afghanistan. also in pakistan. i wanted to write a book for two reasons. the title tells part of it. it's a quote from richard holbrooke who was america's special envoy to afghanistan and pakistan as you know before he died in the last two years. he once said to the british foreign secretary in fact, maybe we are fighting the wrong enemy in the wrong country. it was when they were grappling with the problem of the taliban in afghanistan, the obama administration was trying to work out what to do. the insurge

. ♪ ♪ >>> here with us now, bloomberg correspondent willem marx who is the co-author of "balochistan balochistan is. where is it? >> it's a region within pakistan, on the border of iran and afghanistan. very thinly populated. you don't know much about it. in terms of scales to give you an idea, it's the size of montana and wouliyoming combine. it's a huge area. >> looking at the book, you talk about it's like the moon. some of the shots you've taken? >> yeah, it's very mountainous and desert. and the home of the insurgency of the pakistani central government have been there for about seven years now. we've got pictures from the book. these are people living in incredibly difficult situations. they're treated as second-class citizens by pakistan's government. over the last seven or eight years they've picked up arms against the state. it's not a war we hear much about. it's very difficult for journalists to get there. people like myself who have spent time there have subsequently will be blacklisted. >> what have we got here? >> we've got a man in charge of the baloch liberation army.