Tribesmen block the road between Peshawar, Pakistan, and Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, after one of their colleagues was kidnapped by a rival party.

Pakistan's Vulnerable North-West Passage

Armed militant groups push into Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province and its principal city, Peshawar, threatening the stability of a key transit point in the American effort to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan

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