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1 Sikkim (now part of India)
South Asia India (separate slide show) Pakistan Bangladesh Nepal Bhutan Sikkim (now part of India) Sri Lanka Maldives

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3 Karakoram Highway

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11 Summer Monsoon

12 Winter Monsoon

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19 Pakistan Punjab Afghan Kashmir Indus River

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28 Pakistani Madrassa on YouTube

29 General Pervez Musharraf, former President of Pakistan, on The Daily Show, 9/26/06
Part 2

30 General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (Urdu:محمد ضياء الحق) (b
General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (Urdu:محمد ضياء الحق) (b. August 12, 1924–August 17, 1988) was the president and military ruler of Pakistan from July 1977 to his death in August Appointed Chief of Army Staff in 1976, General Zia-ul-Haq came to power after he overthrew ruling Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in a military coup d'état on July 5, 1977 and became the state's third ruler to impose martial law. The coup itself was largely bloodless; however, he later had Bhutto executed. General Zia

31 Benazir Bhutto’s Assassination, 12/27/07

32 Zardari Asif Bhutto, Benazir's widower, Pakistani Pres
Zardari Asif Bhutto, Benazir's widower, Pakistani Pres. After her assassination

33 Current PM: Nawaz Sharif
Contender: Imran Khan

34 Current President of the Islamic State of Pakistan Mamnoon Hussain

35 Pakistan’s highlands

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37 Waziristan

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39 Waziri Pushtuns

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42 Baluchistan (Balochistan)

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45 2 Infamous Baluchi Sunnis
Ramsey Yousef: 1993 WTC bomber > Khalid Sheikh Muhammad: 2001 WTC bombing mastermind (at capture (m), before capture (r)) Water boarded over 180 times, still in Gitmo (l) List of KSM’s confessions

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47 Bhutan

48 Gross National Happiness
Bhutan: 60 Minutes Gross National Happiness Bhutan, Land of GNH ~16 minutes

49 Bangladesh (Formerly East Pakistan, 1955-1971)

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51 Dhaka, Liberation Memorial

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58 Chittagong Hills, Eastern Bangladesh

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65 Murder of the Royal Family 2001
Maoist insurgency

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68 Stopped Monday

69 Boudhanath is one of the largest stupas and an important Tibetan Buddhist monument outside Tibet. The stupa has a circumference of 100m and is 38m high. After the Chinese invasion of their homeland, many Tibetans sought refuge in Nepal and live in the vicinity of this monument.

70 Ghurkas

71 Modern Ghurka, Britain’s oldest ally in Asia

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73 New World peppers in Colombo

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75 Kandy, Sri Lanka

76 Colombo Movies

77 Buddhist temples with Hindu style, Colombo

78 Tamil Tiger Suicide Kit

79 A memorial for the Tamil Tiger rebels killed in a conflict estimated to have left a total of 65,000 people dead                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  


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