In the undefined northern part of the frontier India claims an area the size of Switzerland, occupied by China, for its region of Ladakh.
But an official with the Frontier Constabulary, which operates in the area, said the villagers had been killed by militants.
The area concerned comprises the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).
In short, frontier controls are indeed disappearing inside the Schengen area.
Hezbollah continued to be active a decade later in the frontier region known as the Tri-Border Area (TBA) that spans the borders of Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina.
"He said he was calling from Miranshah in North Waziristan and the telephone number used to make the call carried an area code common to the Waziristan tribal area and Bannu, the adjoining district in the North West Frontier Province, " the paper said.
It lies across the drug route westward from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Turkey, in an area, between Albania, Bulgaria, Macedonia and Montenegro, where frontier controls are less than watertight.
"They entered our houses and killed our relatives to avenge the killing of six security personnel in the same area of Bara on Monday night, " Shabbir, a former Frontier Corps paramilitary, told the AFP news agency.
The attack is the most recent in a series of attacks in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province and occurred near Sherpao's residence in Charsadda -- an area approximately 28 miles (45 kilometers) northeast of the city of Peshawar.
"Now Taliban are violating the peace agreement, and if they continue the government will take strict action and not allow the Taliban to create a parallel government in that area, " said Mian Iftikhar, a spokesman for the regional administration in the North West Frontier Province, where Buner is located.
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