Pakistan’s Strange ‘War on Terror’
State vs. the people
By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
On July 18, when thousands turned out in the Bannu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), the mountainous northwestern province that borders Afghanistan, marching for peace and demanding that the Pakistan state give up its policy of rehabilitating Taliban fighters in their areas, security forces fired on them. Several people reporte…
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