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Letter From the North West Frontier | Justine Hardy | Pakistan, North West Frontier, Peshawar

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On The Frontier | William Dalrymple | Pakistan, North West Frontier, Peshawar

Violence is to the North West frontier what religion is to the Vatican. It is a raison d’etre, a way of life, an obsession, a philosophy

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Peshawar | Andrew Mueller | Pakistan, North West Frontier, Peshawar

Peshawar has spent its history as a combination of market, safe haven, staging post and recruiting centre for centuries of merchants, soldiers, mercenaries, refugees, journalists, diplomats, spies,

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Wild at Heart | Amar Grover | Pakistan, North West Frontier, Peshawar

"Come, sir, for firing" said a voice at my side. We strolled into a shop, its frontage painted luridly with arms and ammo. The proprietor ordered tea while I studied his range of weaponry - pistols, breechloaders and automatic rifles, machine-guns and, err, sub-machine-guns. Call me old-fashioned but I rather fancied firing a musket. "Show me one" he said, "I make in three days". They say any Darra gunsmith worth his salt can replicate any gun quickly and accurately

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