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©2012 Alan Dejecacion Peshawar, Pakistan, 1996 Peshawar, capital of the Northwest Frontier Province, oozes more romance than any city in Pakistan, except possibly Lahore. At the east end of the legendary Khyber Pass, this rough-edged trading town has been taken and retaken for 2000 years. Its Moghul-era name means ‘frontier town’, which it definitely still is. Unlike Lahore, the romance has a buzz of danger. Nothing much has changed since Alexander the Great ventured into this region in 327 B.C. –embracing some of Asia’s most impenetrable mountains and intractable peoples, this area is home to the world’s biggest autonomous tribal society, that of the fiercely independent but conspicuously hospitable Pashtuns.

©2012 Alan Dejecacion

Peshawar, Pakistan, 1996

Peshawar, capital of the Northwest Frontier Province, oozes more romance than any city in Pakistan, except possibly Lahore. 

At the east end of the legendary Khyber Pass, this rough-edged trading town has been taken and retaken for 2000 years. Its Moghul-era name means ‘frontier town’, which it definitely still is. Unlike Lahore, the romance has a buzz of danger. 

Nothing much has changed since Alexander the Great ventured into this region in 327 B.C. –embracing some of Asia’s most impenetrable mountains and intractable peoples, this area is home to the world’s biggest autonomous tribal society, that of the fiercely independent but conspicuously hospitable Pashtuns.