Even before the Afghan crisis, Sistan-Baluchestan was the most sensitive of Iran's difficult border regions.
Efforts for civic inclusion in border regions can be made at the neighborhood, metropolitan or even transnational scale.
Increasingly, the Pakistani government recognizes that terrorist networks in its border regions are a threat to all our countries, especially Pakistan.
To compensate resource-poor provinces, a special subsidy was created for border regions.
While the Pentagon operates the drones in Afghanistan, the CIA for nearly a decade has used drones to target militants, including Afghans, in Pakistan's border regions.
Enough happened at the jirga, then, to begin a formal dialogue over the turbulent border regions, and a follow-up gathering was agreed, to take place in Pakistan.
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About half of the money would be spent in the troubled border regions with Afghanistan, he added, on improving governance, economic development and "when necessary" appropriate military pressure.
Musharraf, who seized power in 1999, is a key U.S. ally in the war on terror in neighboring Afghanistan and border regions where Osama bin Laden is believed to be hiding.
And with respect to Pakistan and safe havens there, Afghanistan and the United States and Pakistan all have an interest in reducing the threat of extremism in some of these border regions between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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"Through these three programmes, the European Union is providing Northern Ireland with real opportunities to develop its economic potential and competitiveness, to improve the situation of its border regions, and to make further progress towards a peaceful society, " she said.
Some problems are largely beyond Mr Shevardnadze's control, such as the private fief of Ajaria in the south, the two regions on the northern border which have struggled, with Russian help, to secede, and the Chechen rebels who use northern Georgia as a haven of last resort.
Mahmood Shah, a Peshawar-based defense analyst who spent years working for military intelligence in Pakistan's lawless tribal regions that skirt the Afghanistan border.
And tell us, before his visit to Kabul, President Musharraf signed a peace deal with pro-Taliban militants who are operating in the tribal regions in Pakistan along the border with Afghanistan.
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"Over the course of the past five years, the FARC has been pushed back into Colombia's less densely populated jungle regions and across the Ecuadorian border, " said Patrick Esteruelas, an analyst with the Eurasia Group consulting firm.
America has begun using aerial drones, and small ground strikes, in the tribal areas, the wild regions along the Pakistani-Afghan border.
It states that any planar map (that is to say, a flat one) can be coloured with at most four colours in a way that no two regions with the same colour share a border.
And it's also bad just across the border in Spain, in Galicia and Andalusia, two bordering regions where another 270, 000 acres have been destroyed.
The new alert, issued late last week, urges Americans to defer nonessential travel in regions where drug-related violence has surged, including the border state of Tamaulipas and the central state of Michoacan.
He says that, if the United States legalised existing Mexican immigrants, Mexico would do more to reduce the flow of new ones, by developing poor regions but also by an unprecedented offer to police its own border zone and migrant routes.
However, the two leaders still need to agree on who owns the flashpoint Abyei province and other regions along their disputed 2, 000km (1, 200 mile) border.
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