What's new in Af-Pak? History you haven't read
The more things change on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, the more they seem to stay the same ? the same as in the 1870s. The latest news from Waziristan ? the reputed death by U.S. drone strike of Baitullah Mehsud, West Asia?s Public Enemy No. 2 ? doesn?t generate as much optimism as, perhaps, it should. Those Anglo-Saxons active earlier in the region, British colonial forces, killed many Mehsuds over the years, but without, it seems, changing all that ... Full Story »
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