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...fatherhood becomes a path into an essay on the British rewriting of India's past. The shocking discovery that his paternal grandfather fought for the British in the Second Afghan War prompts a disinterment of the long chain of cause and effect that has led to Afghanistan and the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan becoming one of the world's most unstable regions. There are genuinely illuminating sections, such as the one on the distinction between Deobandi and Barelvi Muslims and how an appreciation of those differences is vital to understanding the fractious debates about the nature of Islamic...
...photos of Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province here...
...deadly force on American troops who crossed the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in search of Taliban and al-Qaeda members. The order came in response to a Sept. 3 raid carried out by American ground forces that killed more than a dozen civilians. Owais Ahmed Ghani, governor of Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province, also accused U.S. forces of launching a second raid on Sept. 15, an allegation that was denied by Pakistani and U.S. military officials, who said the attack was a mistake made by an errant helicopter...
...months the army has been keen to rebuild its much-damaged domestic image and distance itself from politics. Any active effort on its part to save Musharraf would have only aroused popular disquiet at a time when the army is struggling to tame militancy in the country's wild North-West Frontier Province...
...unanimously passed what is in effect a vote of no confidence against the President. The verdict of the legislators of the vast and restive Baluchistan province follows the resolution passed unanimously in Sindh and by over 90% of the votes cast in the other two provinces, Punjab and the North-West Frontier...