Pakistan and Afghanistan: Between Bullet and Ballot

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?

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