The Savage Border : The Story of the North-West Frontier

For centuries, Pakistan's North-West Frontier has been seen as a lawless wilderness, which more recently has given sanctuary to Osama Bin Laden and other fundamentalist Muslim leaders. This, the first significant book on the territory for 40 years, tells how the British and invaders before and after the Raj, attempted to deal with this unpredictable land of the Pathans.