Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
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The Peshawar Review
X.T.M lists the contents of the October issue of The Peshawar Review, including pieces by Anjum Altaf on September Eleven and Harbans Mukhia’s memoir of Dr K. M. Ashraf, and…
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Restore the Princes?
Under one paramountcy, Swat built three colleges and over three hundred schools while the Nawabs of Dir kept education out. Same institution, same security, opposite outcomes. Whatever the case for…
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Epstein in Peshawar: Not a Financier, Not Just a Predator
X.T.M reads a 2013 Jeffrey Epstein email from Peshawar as a field report on tribal and official contacts and polio funding. He argues it shows Epstein as an access broker…
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Pakistan Is Not About to Break Apart
X.T.M argues predictions of Pakistan’s imminent break-up are confirmation bias, since Pashtuns are integrated into the state and economy and states collapse only when elites defect, borders become porous and…