spare his life. Another casualty was a senior police officer whom I interviewed in 2009 and greatly admired: Sifwat Ghayur, who led the police in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa against the Pakistani Taliban and in consequence was killed by the militants last summer. So there is no ambiguity in the Pakistani military's stru

is, at least to judge by my hundreds of interviews on the street in all four provinces over the past four years, including this March in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Pakistanis do not necessarily support the Taliban's ideological and revolutionary program. Rather, they see the Taliban's fight against the United

Blackwater had no such political restrictions.” (p. 54, Civilian Warriors by E. Prince) We see also: About BL: "Bin Laden established camps inside Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan and trained volunteers from across the Muslim world to fight against the Soviet-backed regime, the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan” (W

ns.” (p. 54, Civilian Warriors by E. Prince) HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015025 --- PAGE BREAK --- We see also: About BL: "Bin Laden established camps inside Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan and trained volunteers from across the Muslim world to fight against the Soviet-backed regime, the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan” (W

Blackwater had no such political restrictions.” (p. 54, Civilian Warriors by E. Prince) We see also: About BL: "Bin Laden established camps inside Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan and trained volunteers from across the Muslim world to fight against the Soviet-backed regime, the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan” (

in FATA/Pakistan, with Tom Bora in Afghanistan a few kilometres on the other side. The Tirah Valley is a major drugs and arms smuggling throughway. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Frontier Regions: Kohat Frontier Region: A semi-tribal buffer zone between Peshawar and Kohat, populated by the Afridi tribe; less corruption

nment Areas of Nigeria: Katsina and Batsari in Katsina State and Minji bar in Kano State. In Pakistan, two regions of North and South Waziristan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) account for over 40% of Pakistan's polio cases. The vast majority of remaining cases are found in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FAT