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Years ago this turbaned giant of a man, wearing baggy pants and a flowing robe, consented to a parley with a British Resident General of Waziristan, the craggy, wild tribal area of Northwestern India. It did not turn out well. The Fakir was friendly enough. But he declined to accept British bakshish ("small change"), and after he had gone it was discovered that the Fakir's entourage had looted the Resident General's headquarters while the conference was taking place...
...premises: 1) never meet the British at a conference table (they are too good at it); 2) do your arguing with a gun in the mountains (he is good at it). Result is that whereas the humble Fakir used to be No. 40 on the British list of Waziristan's chieftains, he has now become Troublemaker...
Toughest spot in His Britannic Majesty's Indian Empire is barren, mountainous Waziristan, a 10,000-sq. mi. strip of northwest Indian territory lying against the border of Afghanistan. Its fierce tribes have never submitted to British rule. There last week, as they have been doing for two years, grousing British Army officers and sweating troops scrambled over unfriendly mountains on the trail of an elusive, red-bearded, turbaned firebrand, Mirza Ali Khan, the Fakir...
...year-old Fakir, a strapping six-footer who takes his name from the Waziristan village of Ipi, once worked as a Peshawar porter and in Britain's Indian Civil Service. Then he became a religious fanatic, went to live in the Waziristan hills. Two years ago he gathered the tribesmen about him, began a revolt against Britain. Time & again scouting British airplanes have located the Fakir's hideouts and British troops have rushed to capture him. Each time he got away, has left behind a total of some 200 British officers and men killed, hundreds wounded...
...Waziristan sector of the North-West Frontier Province, states The Indian Year Book, "has always been the most difficult of the whole, because of the intractable character of the people...