"A Pathan walks into a chai shop on the corner of Tanai Scout Post Road in Wana and asks everyone there to a circumcision party. As jokes go it could be straight out of some city boy's recession-war-bombing-weary perk-up collection, but it's not, the..."
The Best Travel Writing About Pakistan
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Articles about Pakistan
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Letter from the Northwest Frontier
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Justine Hardy
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Pakistan
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North West Frontier
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Wana
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Letter From the North West Frontier
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Justine Hardy
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Pakistan
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North West Frontier
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Peshawar
"A Pathan walks into a chai shop on the corner Tanai Scout Post Road in Wana and asks everyone there to a circumcision party. As jokes go it could be straight out of some city boy's recession-war-bombing-weary perk-up collection, but it's not, the..."
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Wild at Heart
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Amar Grover
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Pakistan
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North West Frontier
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Peshawar
"People seem to get away with murder around Peshawar, capital of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province. This is a town on the frontier of law and disorder. Wild Afghanistan begins just 60km west and in between lie the 'Tribal Areas' whose volatile..."
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Peshawar
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Andrew Mueller
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Pakistan
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North West Frontier
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Peshawar
"It doesn't take long to decide that Peshawar is going to be worth the long, uncomfortable and agonisingly slow train ride up from Rawalpindi. When I wander out of the station and ask someone who looks like they're in charge about a taxi, they..."
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Lahore: Blood on the Tracks
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William Dalrymple
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Pakistan
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North West Frontier
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Lahore
"It is barely dawn and the sky is as pink as Turkish delight. Yet already, at 5.45am, Lahore Central Station is buzzing like a kicked hive.Bleary eyed, you look around in bewilderment. At home the milkmen are abroad at this time, but no..."
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A Slice of Hunza High
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John Borthwick
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Pakistan
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North West Frontier
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Gilgit
"They've never heard of Hunza Pie in Hunza. Nowhere among the bazaars and tea shops of high Karimabad can I find the succulent wedge of cheese, spinach and wholemeal pastry that epitomised 1970's "hippie vego" cuisine - and that came, one imagined..."
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Chitral
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Amar Grover
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Pakistan
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North West Frontier
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Chitral
"As the noisy old Fokker cleared strands of fir and turbulence at the Lowari Pass, I gazed out across the crinkled Hindu Kush. It was tempting to feel smug but Chitral's airfield packed one last drama. Our plane dipped between bare valley walls,..."
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Before You Die: Raft Pakistan's Ghizar River.
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Steve Jermanok
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Pakistan
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North West Frontier
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Gilgit
"Raft Pakistan's Ghizar River. Originating in the remote Hindu Raj, with 23,000-foot Tirich Mir looming just to the north, the Ghizar is a Class V river (the most challenging) that whips its way through lofty peaks and narrow canyons toward the..."
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On The Frontier
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William Dalrymple
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Pakistan
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North West Frontier
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Peshawar
"Violence is to the North West Frontier what religion is to the Vatican. It is a raison d'être, a way of life, an obsession, a philosophy. Bandoliers hang over the people's shoulders, grenades are tucked into their pockets. Status symbols here are..."
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