Posted by Sigismund on February 24, 2009, at 0:12:36
In reply to Re: The Swat Valley, posted by Neal on February 23, 2009, at 23:14:44
>you sound like you know what you're talking about.
Not very likely
>Do you have personal experience there or in the area?None at all. Just travel books about the Old Silk Road. I've been to India a couple of times, but never to Kashmir. But it is a part of the world I think was once really beautiful and has been comprehensively trashed, with this as the latest installment.
>I've been reading about the area in the Economist.What were they talking about in that?
>Why are the schools destroyed?To stop girls attending school?
Because the schools were secular?
Which takes us back to fundamentalism as a response to threat. Maybe?There was a TV program I watched last night....'Pakistan on the Brink' kind of thing. It seems to be where things are happening.
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