Faqir of IPI

[Ali_Syed]

Re: Faqir of IPI

@muqawwee123

Ali there is a character Pale Shah (I don’t know whether he is real charcter or fictitious) who gave tough time to British Government. We used to watch a drama by PTV on his life. I’ve a gut feeling that Pale Shah have a connection with this Faqir.

I dont know about him, it would be great if you could find something about him.

BTW whats the difference between the insurgency lead by Faqir of IPI and TTP? Have we learnt anything? See the last paragraph again of the Time article:

Decades later, the Fakir’s stomping grounds are again ground zero in a war on terror. American, NATO and Pakistani troops face a hydra-like insurgency led by a string of shadowy extremist leaders who make expert use of the border’s treacherous, land mine-riddled terrain, melting into the mountains only to resurface, ever stronger, from their myriad training camps and bases. “I doubt whether Washington in 2007 knows much more about what is happening in Waziristan than London did in 1937,” says Alan Warren, a military historian and author of a book on Khan. If so, as with the elusive Fakir of Ipi, the heirs of that British frontier force of old might, too, never get their man.