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  • Pagan sect at Pakistan border lives amid conservative Muslims

    06/03/2008 11:51:20 AM PDT · by swarthyguy · 16 replies · 259+ views
    McClatchy ^ | 3.6.08 | Saeed Shah
    BATRIK — bordering Afghanistan's Nuristan province, inaccessible Chitral district has long been thought to be a refuge for Osama bin Laden. With the high peaks of the Hindu Kush range and narrow valleys, ... easy to dodge through secret mountain routes between Pakistan and Afghanistan. home of the Kalasha, a unique pagan civilization that's lived in the area for 2,000 years or more, boxed in by an increasingly militant Islam. According to locals, bin Laden lived with a Kalasha family in Chitral for some time during his first Afghan jihad, . With his now much more severe ideology, the al...