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Pictures
by William B. Plowman
I arrived
in Islamabad on the last Arab Emirates flight out of Dubai
before they closed the Pakistani airspace. The US led campaign against
the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan had begun and I was heading
west from the capital to the border town of Peshawar in the North
West Frontier Provinces.
At the
foot of the Khyber Pass and cloaked in a
blanket of dust and diesel sits the Great Game city known literally
as
"Frontier Town." A dusty and colorful cowboy city with
strong ties and
sympathies to their Pashtun brothers the Taliban.
Led by
some of Pakistan's hard right like the Jamiat-Ul-Ulema-I-Islam,
opposition was quick and well orchestrated.
And from
the morning after the first bombs
fell, tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to
show
their outrage.
Photographer: William
B. Plowman
Website:
http://www.williambplowman.com/
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