Taliban are ruling most of northwestern Pakistan
The country’s government has very little control
The BBC’s Urdu service has mapped out the extent of Taliban control in the Northwest Frontier Province and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and revealed that the Pakistani government controls barely more than one third of the territory.
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