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The first draft of his musings on life in the tribal areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan was written in the 1970s -- and then forgotten. IE 11 is not supported.
Some 40 years later, those stories are published in the book The Wandering Falcon. Steve Inskeep sat down with Ahmad recently in Pakistan. ... The tribal areas of Pakistan.
In Pakistan's Tribal Areas, ... It's his discussion with 79-year-old first-time novelist Jamil Ahmad, a retired civil servant whose book The Wandering Falcon is, as Steve says, ...
Outside the jurisdiction of Pakistan’s courts and legislature, the semiautonomous Federally Administered Tribal Areas, or FATA, are governed by the 1901 Frontier Crimes Regulation, which grants ...
Pakistan’s remote Federally Administered Tribal Areas (the tribal lands) have been a training ground for insurgents and a focal point for terrorism fears, particularly since the 9/11 attacks ...
The tribal areas of Pakistan were once famous as sports grounds. But today, youth have few facilities and little opportunity to compete in organized games. That plays into the hands of militants.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — With the Pakistani military’s crackdown on protesters in the northwestern tribal belt in recent days, the security forces have asserted themselves as the true masters of ...
Book Talk: Tribal areas come alive in 80-year-old`s debut It took more than three decades for Pakistan's Jamil Ahmad to get published. The first draft of his musings on life in the tribal areas of ...
It took more than three decades for Pakistan's Jamil Ahmad to get published. The first draft of his musings on life in the tribal areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan was written in the 1970s -- and ...