Arithmetic on the Frontier
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Guardian journalist Declan Walsh follows politician Anwar Kamal through northwest Pakistan during his campaign for re-election. The emerging portrait is quintessentially political as Kamal is shown to be a man who can rise to any occasion – be it socially formal or chaotically violent – while he manages what he refers to as a ‘war of nerves’ with the encroaching Taliban.
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