This week the Taliban bombed a bridge on the KhyberPass along the Pakistani border with Afghanistan that served as a supply line to US forces in Afghanistan.
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 KhyberPass and into Afghanistan.
In a remote tribal community near the KhyberPass, 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.
Reporters covering the Cold War sought interviews with rebel leaders, often sneaking off into dangerous territory on the other side of the KhyberPass to file a hagiographic portrait of human bravery confronting the might of a nuclear superpower - and winning.