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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Zarghon Shah is a man who knows just how lucky he is to be alive.
Zarghon Shah: "We were just counting our moments to death."
1 of 2 He came face-to-face with the feared Taliban fighters of Pakistan's Swat Valley, was ordered to be executed and gained a chilling insight into the mind of a fearsome militant who has waged a campaign of terror.
"I saw two Taliban standing there then I realized the danger, that we were in a wrong place," Zarghon said.
It was May this year when the TV reporter and his crew, reporting on the Taliban's uprising, strayed too far.
Zarghon, his cameraman and driver were captured in Buner, taken to an empty room and put on trial by a Taliban commander.
"He said you are telling lies; you are spies. It is because of you hell has been unleashed on us ... and it is you, the media, who is responsible for this war. I'm not going to spare you, I will slit your throat."
Then with a death sentence on his head, Zarghon and his crew were left alone for five hours -- an agonizing wait.
"We were just counting our moments to death." Zarghon told me.
And he knew it would be a most gruesome, horrible death. source: cnn.com