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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (3): 73–81.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Shaheen Buneri The changes began in July 2007 when Maulana Fazlullah, a 32-year-old lift operator turned Taliban commander, launched a pirate FM radio station to preach religious bigotry across the Swat Valley. Day after day, his inflammatory broadcasts discouraged girls’ education, called...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (2): 87–93.
Published: 01 June 2005
.... As a result, our under­ I must admit that until very recently I standing of the forces that gave rise to Is­ shared this general ignorance. I can remem­ lamist fundamentalism on the Indian sub­ ber traveling from Swat to Hazara in the continent has been seriously distorted. late 1990s and being...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (3): 1–2.
Published: 01 September 2011
..., explores the sad underbelly of the Yemeni revolution—which could have an outcome even more tragic than Somalia just across the Red Sea. Then we examine Afghanistan and Pakistan from two different perspectives. First, there are the defenseless victims of the Taliban—the citizens of the Swat Valley...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 34–40.
Published: 01 June 2018
...-year-old Breivik to kill 69 people at the annual youth summer camp of Norway’s then-governing social democratic Labor Party. The number of gunshots heard in the film is exactly the same as the number of shots fired by Breivik before he was arrested by a SWAT team from Oslo police headquarters. Through...
FIGURES
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World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (2): 95–101.
Published: 01 June 2003
... the bad ideas. former foreign minister, Hubert Védrine, for the coinage, with respect to America, of the Fools Swatted and Enemies Slain term “hyperpower”: far from denoting a new Jean-François Revel is the tara avis...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (2): 73–78.
Published: 01 June 2003
... all caught and most ployed when and wherever they might be of them executed.) Boating was more of a needed. They will, in effect, be waterborne rich man’s sport in those days than now, SWAT teams, and will be supplied with spe­ but boaters of all stripes donated their ves­ cial, 25-foot boats...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (1): 77–92.
Published: 01 March 2003
...-1840), a humiliat­ end in 1897, when an uprising broke out ing debacle that ended an unbroken succes­ in the Swat valley on the North-West Fron­ sion of victories by the Raj’s armies. In tier, threatening a British garrison on the The Invention of Pakistan...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (4): 106–115.
Published: 01 December 2012
...-year-old female peace activist Malala Yousafzai was targeted and shot by Taliban gunmen, simply for wanting to go to school. Scores of young Pakistanis organized street protests, prayed, and held up posters for Malala with some young girls in Swat proclaiming, “Malala is our sister, and if terrorists...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (4): 101–110.
Published: 01 December 2017
... of our return until peace returns there, and our legal status in India.” Sitting on his haunches and swatting away the afternoon flies gathering at his shop’s entrance, Salimullah says that reporters often ask him how he can be so brave. “They think I’m taking on a big country,” he says...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (2): 40–52.
Published: 01 June 2015
... not believe in our effort. For example, they think we punish corrupt officials selectively because of power struggles at the top, and that we merely swat at small flies instead of fighting tigers in our environmental battle.” “people are angry with the corrupt lifestyles of the officials...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (3): 103–112.
Published: 01 September 2005
.... was the size of a brick and worth more than Swatting at mosquitoes, the men began the average annual income of a Chapare to tear down the lab and collect all the ma­ family. terials. It had already yielded at least two With everything gathered in the cen­ small batches of paste, each worth upwards ter...
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World Policy Journal (2006) 23 (1): 25–35.
Published: 01 March 2006
... retard United States is no longer viewed as a credi­ this labor. In practical terms, extraordinary ble human rights advocate. The Zimbab­ rendition empowers local factions who are wean representative to that body swatted opposed to democratic development. And away American criticisms...