February 28: The Economist states that a trip around Miranshah with an escort of heavily armed soldiers is a surreal experience. The town is the administrative center of North Waziristan, a lawless region once controlled by jihadists that Barack Obama called “the most dangerous place in the world”. But Pakistan’s army, which fought a 22-month campaign from 2014 to evict militants from North Waziristan, is trying to transform the town from a byword for extremism to a showcase of the stability to which the generals say the country is returning.
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