Participants from all over Punjab Province and other provinces of Pakistan attended the first Session of the workshop.

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Workshops on GIS conducted in Mansehra and Peshawar were largely attended by participants not only from other districts, but also from other provinces of Pakistan.

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Following the government's capitulation in Swat, the Taliban now controls 18 out of Pakistan's 30 provinces in its northwest and Federally Administered Tribal Areas that border Afghanistan.

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We work in partnership with communities in 8 provinces of Afghanistan and the refugee camps of Pakistan, focusing on those communities which do not have access to education and health.

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"They're still trying to come back, " said a senior coalition intelligence officer in an interview Wednesday from Afghanistan, describing the remote stronghold of al-Qaida in the Afghan provinces of Kunar and Nuristan, just across the Pakistan border.

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"They dare not sell Hunan rice, " the executive said, adding that the market is now selling rice produced in the provinces of Hubei, Jiangxi, Henan and in northeastern areas, together with some imported rice from Vietnam and Pakistan.

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With an army of 10, 000, drawn from Afghan refugee camps inside Pakistan, he says he could liberate four provinces in Afghanistan's east.

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Dilashad said he will receive reports from Pakistan's four provinces on Monday regarding law and order, as well as recommendations regarding the timing of elections.

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"This has been my baby for two years, " says Faisal, 38, who has built Ruba (he is vague about the source of the name) on his dirt-poor family's trading origins in Pakistan's frontier provinces.

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