Atop a police outpost in northwest Pakistan, Faizanullah Khan stands behind a stack of sandbags and peers through the sight of an anti-aircraft gun, scanning the terrain along the unofficial boundary with the country's restive former tribal areas.
On February morning, he was not looking for aircraft but instead looking for Islamist fighters behind attacks against his force, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa provincial police.
It was daytime so he could relax, said Khan, an assistant sub-inspector, as he sat down on a traditional woven bed. But night was a different story, he said, pointing out the pock marks left by bullets fired at the outpost, named Manzoor Shaheed, or Manzoor the Martyr, after a colleague was killed by insurgents years ago.
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