ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the role Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy's documentaries have played in defining a 'Cinema on Terror' film category that focuses on tracking and documenting the roots and patterns of terrorism one that investigates, informs, cautions and warns of Pakistan's impending dangers. She began her filmmaking career with the New York Times Television (NYTT) in 2002 where she produced her first documentary film, Terror's Children. The trend towards Talibanization and terrorism also saw the emergence of documentary filmmakers who turned to investigating its roots and implications. Obaid-Chinoy's filmic depictions of the consequent internal armed conflict, displacements, unrest, and destruction form a connective narrative link between the religious fundamentalism and politicization of religion fostered during the Islamization period. Obaid-Chinoy ends her documentation of Pakistan's Taliban Generation with a grave realization and comment: The Taliban is confident of winning the support of the next generation there are 80 million children in Pakistan.
