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FROM BEYOND THE KHYBER PASS (5#) -

# Over the weekend, three reporters from the UK Telegraph were expelled from Pakistan after they were accused of using "foul and abusive language" against the country and its leadership.

# Things seem to be spinning out of control in Pakistan? Not to worry, as our Nukes for Nuts Update clearly illustrates: "The United States has developed contingency plans to safeguard Pakistani nuclear assets if the current political turmoil allows extremists to get hold of the weapons" ... [but] the situation "could get very messy." Just messy, that's all.

# The Frontier Corps has announced that there is no truth in recent rumors regarding the capture of Frontier Corps' officers and men in the Swat area.

# Peshawar: The Cyber Point Internet Cafe on Ishrat Cinema Road in the Gulbahar-4 neighborhood was bombed on Sunday. The owner, who was on a meal break at the time, was injured, and his business assets seriously damaged. There's a photo of it on the front page of The Frontier Post this morning... looks like it's in shambles.

# From an unusually informative
editorial, although written in a picturesque style:

Isn't it appalling that as on his own domain headhunting ferociously are prowling savage predators, the NWFP governor was just out in Sindh, himself shooting birds? His hunting excursion may not be begrudged. But his domain is aflame visibly... Although the administration is keeping the region shut on media, news does filter through that curtain to reach out to the outside world...

+ You bet it does! Urge you
to read this if you have time.

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