The Khyber Pass is one of the two main routes in Pakistan for NATO supplies headed to neighboring Afghanistan.

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How the War in Afghanistan Depends on the Khyber Pass by Addison Wigginoriginally appeared in the Daily Reckoning.

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The governor of the Afghan province of Nangarhar said that several Pakistani border checkpoints were torn down just south of the Khyber Pass.

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One of the key weapons supply routes for NATO and American forces runs from the southern port city of Karachi to the outskirts of Peshawar, through the Khyber Pass and into Afghanistan.

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In a remote tribal community near the Khyber Pass, where no governmental jurisdiction reaches, Peerzada portrays the work of the jirga - a 5, 000-year-old tradition in which all the villagers gather to make laws.

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