The road down from the Malakand Pass usually carries little traffic and it seemed normal till 1600.

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Will it also succeed in setting up an administrative system that works for the war-ravaged Malakand region?

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The mosques were located in Baz Darrah village in the Malakand district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Rehman said.

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Success in South Waziristan, which Pakistan only notionally administers, would look much more modest than that in Malakand.

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Kohistan, which is not in Malakand division, is also covered under the deal.

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The first part of our journey was on foot, until we reached Malakand.

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The peace deal encompasses the Malakand Division, which includes the following areas: Swat, Lower Dir, Upper Dir, Buner, Shangla, Chitral and Malakand.

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Fourth, the army has had the experience of operating in Waziristan since 2002, whereas it was a complete stranger to the Malakand region.

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If Pakistan now has a window of relative political and economic stability, could Malakand prove to be a turning-point in Pakistan's flagging war with extremism?

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Though the deal backfired, the ANP's attempt to strip the Taliban of public sympathy seems to have worked, as few people in Malakand division have any words of praise for them any more.

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