Charles Stirnweiss, the mayor of Forbach, argues that with the flush of German reunification fading, more German investors seeking lower costs are coming to Lorraine, seeing it almost as a single cross-frontier region with the Saarland.

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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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The Pakistani military has been conducting a month-long offensive against the Taliban, centered in the Swat region of North West Frontier Province.

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It is the latest attack to strike Pakistan in the wake of its military offensive against the Taliban, centered in the Swat region of North West Frontier Province.

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But, of course, this region has always been pristine frontier, rugged and challenging.

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Pakistani military forces have been conducting an offensive against the Taliban in North West Frontier Province and have targeted insurgents in the adjacent tribal region.

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The closet thing to an urban center is a place called Coihaique, in which more than half of the region's 100, 000 residents reside, and smaller frontier settlements are home to fewer than 500 people, such as Villa O'Higgins where Faustino sells his livestock.

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