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  • Dera is the only one who doesn't seem to care, and it is only thanks to her that any serious thinking and action gets done.

    REVIEW: Elom by William H. Drinkard 2008

  • According to details, MNA Rasheed Akbar Nawani was exchanging Eid greetings with the people who gathered at his 'Dera' when a man with curly hair entered the place and tried to get close to the MNA but failed, as the place was jam-packed with people.

    Bloggers.Pakistan 2008

  • 10The rigorous use of archival records was at the same time partial because smaller district archives in localities such as Dera Ismail Khan and Quetta were not consulted, nor were larger imperial repositories of textual and material colonial data found at such institutions as the Royal Asiatic Society in Calcutta or the Imperial War Museum in London.

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

  • Police arrested the boy Sunday after he failed to detonate his bomb-laden vest outside the Sakhi Sarwar shrine in the Dera Ghazi Khan district of Punjab province.

    Warning, Apology from Failed Pakistani Suicide Bomber 2011

  • Several thousand people were marking the 942nd anniversary of the death of the saint Ahmad Sultan, better known as Sakhi Sarwar, at his shrine in the Dera Ghazi Khan district of Punjab province when the bombers struck crowds waiting outside, government administrator Iftikhar Saho said.

    Bombs kill 42 at Pakistani shrine 2011

  • Garrett encountered many dry holes in his four-year hunt for Kasi, finally tracking him down in the dusty backwater of Dera Ghazi Khan, in central Pakistan, which “felt like it was out of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.”

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • Authorities say the explosion occurred in the town of Dera Allah Yar in Baluchistan province.

    Bomb Blast Kills 12 in Southwest Pakistan Hotel 2011

  • Omar said that when they got to Dera Ghazi Khan he told his handlers there were no non-Muslims there but that his handlers told him the people there were worse than non-believers.

    Warning, Apology from Failed Pakistani Suicide Bomber 2011

  • Authorities say the explosion occurred in the town of Dera Allah Yar in Baluchistan province.

    Bomb Blast Kills 12 in Southwest Pakistan Hotel 2011

  • Garrett encountered many dry holes in his four-year hunt for Kasi, finally tracking him down in the dusty backwater of Dera Ghazi Khan, in central Pakistan, which “felt like it was out of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.”

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

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