Jamrud

Torkham highway has become extremely dangerous due to militancy in Jamrud and Landi Kotal.

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Torkham highway has become extremely dangerous due to militancy in Jamrud and Landi Kotal.

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The attack occurred as more than 300 people packed into the mosque for Friday prayers in Jamrud, the main town in the Khyber tribal region.

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Bombs are being detonated still, a massive one only days ago in Jamrud, through which we must have passed to gain the Khyber Pass.

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The attack occurred as more than 300 people packed into the mosque for Friday prayers in Jamrud, the main town in the Khyber tribal region.

Suicide Bombing at Pakistan Mosque Kills at Least 48 2011

Note 54: Jamrud was and remains a toll post and small fort at the eastern opening of the Khaibar where the pass meets the Peshawar valley.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

Competing trade documents prompted tangible social interaction between state functionaries such as the Peshawar qafilabashi and the Jamrud darogha, and between each of those officials and the nomads, as documents from 1896 indicate.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

This arrangement resulted in the Jamrud darogha often only inscribing in colonial record books the potential transit taxes due from the nomads for their textually coerced commercial traversing of the Khaibar, and the sugar episode indicates the British did not attempt to collect many of these fees from the nomads.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

Note 57: Nomads could and often did receive their qafilabashi passes, and other forms of Durrani state paperwork, directly from the qafilabashi and his munshi at Jamrud. back

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

These included their reluctance to review and reevaluate the Jamrud darogha's bookkeeping practices and inhibitions about the appearance of revoking precedent because of how much sugar had already been conveyed to Kabul without paying Khaibar tolls.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008