Like most frontier towns, the place is a strange mixture of rampant individualism and collaboration: staff are borrowed, ideas shared, favours exchanged.

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It was the last mainland frontier, it was a place known for gold.

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Mr Obama has dubbed the Afghanistan-Pakistan frontier the world's most dangerous place.

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