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Pakistan and Afghanistan: Between Bullet and Ballot

Ayesha Khan, April 2008

The World Today, Volume 64, Number 4

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Islamist parties and the Pakistan military have sustained each other in power while battling militants near the border. Now elections have unseated the Islamist-military alliance and ushered in fresh politics in areas bordering Afghanistan. Can the new forces create peace in the hills?