Bold games: 6-meter drops and the great escape

NEW YORK: Two journalists held over seven months by the Taliban in Pakistan endured death threats before they escaped by tricking guards and dropping down a 6-m wall with a rope, according to one of the former captives.

Afghan journalist Tahir Ludin provided the details in an interview published yesterday by The New York Times.

Ludin was held captive along with David Rohde, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the Times, and their driver, Asadullah Mangal.