Purdah is strictly observed by many women in rural areas of Pakistan, including the majority-Pashtun northern belt bordering Afghanistan.

在巴基斯坦的农村地区，包括与阿富汗接壤的普什图北部地区，女人们都严格地遵守着Purdah的传统。

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This region of Pakistan, known as the Northern Areas, is almost flamboyantly beautiful.

巴基斯坦的这个地区被称为北方地区，风景绝美。

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This would leave the predominantly Muslim Northern Areas as part of Pakistan and Buddhist Ladakh and majority Hindu Jammu as part of India, with the possibility that some Muslim districts of Jammu might also opt to join the independent state.

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India repeatedly claimed that Pakistani forces belonging to the northern light infantry, based in the Pakistani-administered Northern Areas, were engaged in the operations - a claim Pakistan consistently denied.

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The UK Foreign Office has now warned British citizens not to travel to Pakistan and for those in North-West Frontier Province, Baluchistan and the Northern Areas to leave immediately.

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