Pakistan's Vulnerable North-West Passage

Critical Juncture
Tribesmen block the road between Peshawar, Pakistan, and Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, after one of their colleagues was kidnapped by a rival group. In the past few months, several militant groups with bases in Pakistan's lawless tribal region have begun to move with relative impunity in and around the cities and towns of the country's North-West

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