Word: malakand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says, smiling slightly, "because no one was hurt. But a lot of bullets were fired. "Banuri plays down his role in capturing outlaws in the tribal district of Pakistan because he says he doesn't want to be known for that. On one occasion, Banuri, as magistrate of the Malakand area, gathered a group of seven men and went posse-style after a local "gangster." The gangster had his own armed band but Banuri recalls, "We were more lucky than anything else. We went into a ravine and outflanked...
Stationed in the Malakand subdistrict, Banuri found the lifestyle similar to what he had seen in westerns as a child. He recalls that he once mistook a film of the American west for the Pakistani frontier. The people have similar attitudes about survival, and they rely mainly on themselves--"We have a very individual culture. When you grow up you are told you must safeguard your own rights...