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Pakistan's Lawless, Impoverished Northwest

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Aug 28, 2013
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The rugged, lawless region lying across the North Western frontier of Pakistan under the name Federally Administered Tribal Areas, universally called FATA, is known as the "hub of terrorism" in a country that itself is almost ungovernable and too often in the grip of terror.

It is perhaps Pakistan's least developed and most ignored region?hence the most…

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