At the Northwest frontier defence system of the Qing Dynasty, the Altai region had an extremely important strategic position.

在清代西北边防体系中，阿尔泰地区具有极为重要的战略地位。

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The men were Pashtuns from Charsadda, in the northwest frontier region close to Afghanistan, and moved to Abbottabad seven years ago.

这些人是七年前从一个靠近阿富汗的西北边境的的贾尔瑟达搬到这里来的普什图族人。

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The areas worst affected in the heavy monsoon rains in August were Peshawar in the Northwest Frontier province (NWFP), and Rajanpur in the Punjab province.

巴基斯坦受8月季风导致的强降雨影响最严重的地区是西北边境省的白沙瓦和旁遮普省的拉詹普尔。

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That has contributed to the lack of U.S. influence in Pakistan during the Taliban's recent advances in the Northwest Frontier.

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Yet as Hassan Abbas, a former Pakistani police chief in the Northwest Frontier Region of Pakistan wrote in a recent paper for the Jamestown Foundation, it is unclear how US development assistance can be credibly put to good use.

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Aided and abetted by Islamist governments in the Northwest Frontier Province and Balochistan and a never-ending supply of young zealots mass-produced by thousands of radical madrassas tolerated by the regime, the jihadists are talibanizing vast stretches of the country and turning it into a breeding ground for home-grown and foreign terrorists alike.

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