Pamela Constable from Bazitkhel in The Washington Post:
This tiny village in northwestern Pakistan has paid a high price for its defiance.
The health clinic lies in ruins, blasted to rubble by a car bomb that exploded outside three weeks ago. The mayor’s compound next door is full of jagged holes. Five residents are dead, including a shopkeeper’s small son and daughter. More than 20 were injured, including a young man whose right hand was severed.
But while most inhabitants of this violence-plagued region near the Afghan border have been cowed by the growing tide of Islamist and criminal violence, those in a handful of communities like Bazitkhel — where tribal bonds are especially strong — are determined to arm themselves and fight back.
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