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Many tribal maliks were an easy mark for the militants; many of them were rotten, using government funds allotted for schools, clinics and irrigation canals to line the pockets of their own baggy shalwar kameez trousers. Their sole connection to Islamabad was through the all-powerful and often corrupt political agent, a relic from the British colonial times, who decided which tribal elder should be favored or punished...
Khalik, dusty in a torn shalwar kameez, looked relieved as McCullough released his ink stained hand. His village elder, a long gray-bearded man named Haji Assidullah - who had just signed the corollary "Reintegration Sponsor Agreement" - gave him a reassuring smile. A Marine took Khalik from the room and then walked outside to retrieve another detainee, to repeat the process...
Khan's collection was also a reminder of the origins of Pakistani high fashion. In 1972, she triggered what she calls a "minor revolution" with a couple of arresting alterations to the national dress. "Back then, the shalwar kameez - baggy trousers and long tunic - was basically a glorified pajama suit," she says, shuddering slightly at the memory. "Women would put it on every morning and then sleep in it. I thought this was gross." Khan replaced the shapeless shalwar with Capri trousers, and changed the dupatta (a large multipurpose scarf) into a Western-style neck scarf. "I've never looked...
...tell me one interesting story about Bhutto. When her husband was governor of Arkansas, she and Bill and Chelsea visited London and stood on the sidewalk outside Bhutto's hotel, waiting for the then Pakistani Prime Minister to arrive. "She was wearing a yellow embroidered shalwar kameez with a chiffon scarf. I was just a fan, standing on the sidewalk with everyone else. It was the only time I ever did anything like that," Clinton says...
...border with the Khyber tribal agency. A spate of kidnappings and murders have taken place in well-heeled neighborhoods. And even in the Lady Reading Hospital, where Zubair Khan and others injured were taken, doctors have been subject to threats. They now all wear the traditional shalwar kameez after the Taliban ordered them to abandon western clothing. (Read about the Taliban's culture war in Peshawar...