Pakistan’s battle with bandits shows why it is losing all wars within

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The Pir was hanged in 1943, and secretly buried on the island of Astola. This location was specially picked since there was no fresh water to draw visitors, and only scorpions and snakes to guard his bones. Like in all colonial counter-insurgency, the rage of the Raj was savage. Frontier Force soldier Alistair McKeith used traditional camel-trackers, or Paggis, to detect the location of attackers, and dynamited their entire villages. Fleeing villagers were strafed from the air. Twelve years old, weighed down by his magnificent, golden, and august regnal name, Sayyid Sibghatullah Shah Al-Rashidi II, the sixth Pir of Pagaro,...