Christine Fair

Christine Fair is the coordinator for South Asia research programs at the United States Institute for Peace (USIP)

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    Pakistan Loses Swat to Local Taliban

    In recent weeks large swathes of Pakistan’s idyllic mountainous region of Swat—a mere 90 miles from Islamabad—have fallen to militants purportedly led by Maulana Fazlullah, whose Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shari’at-e-Mohammad (Movement for the