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Pakistan on the Brink, by Ahmed Rashid

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"The present scare was set off in mid-February when the North-West Frontier Provisional government signed a deal with a neo-Taliban movement in the scenic Swat Valley, a major tourist resort area about a hundred miles from Islamabad, allowing the Taliban to impose strict sharia law in Swat's courts."

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