Word: frontierment
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SOUTH ASIA New Tensions on the Line of Control Pakistan began pulling back troops from its border with Afghanistan as President Pervez Musharraf warned that they would be deployed along the Indian frontier if tensions over Kashmir are not defused. Such a move would be largely symbolic, since Pakistan and India already have about a million soldiers along their border. Echoing - and perhaps assuaging - India's feelings, President George W. Bush demanded that Pakistan crack down on Islamic militants slipping across the Line of Control dividing Kashmir. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is to visit the region this week...
When a young, illiterate housewife named Zafran Bibi went to Pakistani police last year, pregnant and claiming a fellow villager had raped her, she didn't expect that she'd be the one punished. But a judge in the ultraconservative Northwest Frontier province exonerated the man and last month convicted Zafran Bibi of adultery. Her sentence: death by public stoning. In Pakistan, victims of sex crimes are subject to harsh Islamic laws known as the Hudood ordinances. For a rapist to be found guilty, four adult male Muslims have to witness the crime, or the rapist must confess...
...later before the civilian press. Vajpayee ordered thousands more jawans, or soldiers, to the 3,000-kilometer-long border with Pakistan and moved five warships to the Arabian Sea. Pakistan responded by pulling 4,000 men out of peacekeeping duties in Sierra Leone and stationing them along its eastern frontier. It is considering withdrawing thousands more of its soldiers from the coalition hunt for al-Qaeda fugitives on the Afghanistan border. On Saturday, it performed a provocative test of a medium-range Ghauri missile. With mutual nuclear annihilation as the ultimate escalation, the subcontinent once again regained its status...
...illiterate housewife named Zafran Bibi went to the police last year, pregnant and claiming a fellow villager had raped her while she was cutting grass, she didn't expect that she'd be the one to get punished. But last month, a judge in Pakistan's ultra-conservative Northwest Frontier province convicted her of adultery. "I hereby convict and sentence the accused Zafran Bibi to stoning to death," wrote Judge Anwar Ali Khan, "and that she be stoned to death at a public place...
...Frontier's families spend more than five months farming, cooking, tending livestock and felling trees--an especially hard life for the Xbox-deprived kids. But the real drama is psychological. Competitive Tennesseans Karen and Mark Glenn squabble with each other and with the Clunes--well-off, whiny Californians who sneak in food and gear, rationalizing that pioneers would have cheated to survive if they could have. (The Brookses, a young interracial couple, are neighborly and mellow, and thus get relatively little screen time.) The couples clash over purity of lifestyle, rules and personalities, all within a context of earnest communitarianism...