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Mapping the Drone War Over Pakistan
The controversial campaign of U.S. drone strikes has been intensely focused on small northern Pakistani communities near the Afghan border.
Throughout this week, CityLab is running a series on borders—both real and imagined—and what draws so many of us to places on the edge.
This week at CityLab, many of my colleagues have written about the numerous ways borders shape the lives of those alongside them. But a border’s force on people is always relative. For those with more power than the group attempting to enact the imagined division, a border is nothing more than a line on a map.