At the Northwest frontier defence system of the Qing Dynasty, the Altai region had an extremely important strategic position.

在清代西北边防体系中，阿尔泰地区具有极为重要的战略地位。

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The men were Pashtuns from Charsadda, in the northwest frontier region close to Afghanistan, and moved to Abbottabad seven years ago.

这些人是七年前从一个靠近阿富汗的西北边境的的贾尔瑟达搬到这里来的普什图族人。

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The areas worst affected in the heavy monsoon rains in August were Peshawar in the Northwest Frontier province (NWFP), and Rajanpur in the Punjab province.

巴基斯坦受8月季风导致的强降雨影响最严重的地区是西北边境省的白沙瓦和旁遮普省的拉詹普尔。

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"I welcome President Zadari's determination to confront militants who have been challenging the authority of the democratically elected government in the northwest frontier province,"

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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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Mackinder saw history being made on the Northwest frontier of India, but the Empire bled to death on the fields of France in fear of what might happen elsewhere, and by the time it got to India it handed over that frontier, out of exhaustion and a growing reluctance to fight for a possession that did not want to be possessed.

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Javid Sultan was the top commander in the garrison city of Kohat in Pakistan's northwest frontier province near the Afghanistan border, the military said.

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