A displaced Pakistani child tends to his sheep near a makeshift camp at a secure location in troubled Swat Valley on February 7, 2009. Local officials said last week that 20,000 people had fled Swat recently. A lucrative tourist industry for Western and Pakistani holidaymakers after skiing and mountain hikes now lies decimated. Thousands of followers of radical cleric Maulana Fazlullah are waging a violent campaign to impose their extremist interpretation of Islamic Sharia law, beheading opponents, threatening detractors and fighting the government. (CHAND KHAN/AFP/Getty Images) #
From the towering mountains of the Himalayas, till the shores of the Arabian sea, the land of the snow covered peaks, burning deserts, fertile plains, and gushing rivers is Pakistan. It was Allama Iqbal who spoke of the shape of this Muslim nation, Chaudhary Rahmat Ali proposed the name Pakistan (Land of the Pure) and finally, Muhammad Ali Jinnah turned the dream into reality. Pakistan Zindabad!
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A displaced Pakistani child tends to his sheep near a makeshift camp at a secure location in troubled Swat Valley on February 7, 2009. Local officials said last week that 20,000 people had fled Swat recently. A lucrative tourist industry for Western and Pakistani holidaymakers after skiing and mountain hikes now lies decimated. Thousands of followers of radical cleric Maulana Fazlullah are waging a violent campaign to impose their extremist interpretation of Islamic Sharia law, beheading opponents, threatening detractors and fighting the government. (CHAND KHAN/AFP/Getty Images) #
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