In Bajaur Agency, one of seven tribal areas in northwestern Pakistan, very few girls go to school due to threats by the Taliban. “When I hired a tutor so my two older daughters could keep up their learning at home, I began receiving threats,” explained Salim Jan from Khar, the agency’s main town. He is [...]
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The rapidly heating stand-off between the PPP government and the Pakistan Army, which threatened to boil over on Jan 11, 2012 as a war of words erupted between PM Gilani and the military, may yet escape the traditional ending. Gilani’s remarks to the Chinese People’s Daily, that the responses of the Army Chief and the [...]
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