In Pakistan, the Power of Peshawar; In This City of Intrigue, Warmheartedness and Warfare Go Hand-in-Hand From: The Washington Post | Date: September 6, 1987| Author: Rob Schultheis | Copyright 1987 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Peshawar, capital of Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province, is one of those volatile, vaguely hazardous cities-think of Erzurum, in eastern Turkey, or northern Thailand's Chiang Mai-that lie on or near borders, along historical, political and ethnic fault lines. Whatever else these cities are, they are seldom dull: Intrigue boils and bubbles just beneath the surface of everyday life, an underworld of exiles, border jumpers, smugglers and spies, plotters and schemers, black and gray markete...

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