It is some testimony to the relations between the countries formerly constituting the British Indian Empire that, just as the only air connection between Bangladesh and India is a route between Dhaka and Calcutta, so, too, the only connection between Bangladesh and Pakistan - formerly East and West Pakistan - is a route between Dhaka and Karachi. . . . Read More

South Waziristan Agency has an area of 2,556 square miles. Three quarters of the population are Mahsud, the remaining quarter, Wazir. This division based on the traditional Nikkat (ancestral hereditaments) was confirmed by the British as the basis for all tribal dealings whether in terms of profit or loss, reward or punishment. . . . Read More