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Cover Story
18 The Way of the Gun The skills of the gunsmiths of Darra Adam Khel are the stuff of legend. But how much is fiction and how much is fact?
Feature
32 In a Man’s World They’re tough, courageous and determined. Meet the Afghan women who are making their mark in a male-dominated society
Humour
37 Riding a Donkey to a Bright Future Tired of arrows, tigers and kites? This election, give your vote to the PRDP!
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6 People & Parties: Out and about with Pakistan’s beautiful people 40 Reviews: Desi violence to the hilt 42 End Of The Line: Tragicomedy
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COVER STORY
THE WAY OF THE GUN In his 1922 book, Story of the North West Frontier Province, author JM Ewart writes: “That gap in the low hills (south of Peshawar city) marks the Kohat Pass, which really has a better claim to being a historic highway of invasion than the Khyber itself. By it, across a neck of Afridi country, runs the Frontier Road to Kohat and Bannu, to Dera Ismail Khan and Razmak. The villages of the pass are famed for a strange industry — the manufacture entirely by hand of rifles and ammunitions, especially rifles, to the eye so like the products of European arsenals as to deceive all but experts. For these, since they are comparatively cheap and serviceable, there is a ready sale all along the border.” Going by what Ewart wrote, it seems that Darra Adam Khel’s armament
industry and black market was well-established and well-known even a century ago. In 1920, there was no centralised market, but scattered units
located away from the main highway which passes through the region. It was only after independence that a market, in the true sense of the word, emerged.
No one, however, knows about when arms manufacturing in Darra actu-
ally started, but it is claimed that it was established by Hindustani karegaran who came to Darra, most likely from Punjab. The local people not only
provided them with shelter but also allowed them to set up workshops.
For themselves, the locals chose the more profitable and far easier job of becoming arms dealers and to this day, 99 per cent of the gunsmiths are (Continued on page 28)
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The skills of the gunsmiths of Darra Adam Khel are the stuff of legend. But how much is fiction and how much is fact?
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COVER STORY non-locals but almost 100 per cent of arms dealers and shopkeepers are locals who enjoy a complete monopoly over the trade.
But why did some people, who were very skilled gunsmiths, come
to this far flung part of the subcontinent? Locals claim that the first gunsmith who came to Darra Adam Khel was in fact a deserter from the British Army, possibly around the time of the 1857 rebellion, who
came to Akhor village where he was accorded a red carpet welcome.
The tribesmen of those days, much like the tribesmen of today, loved their guns and were delighted to have at their disposal the skills of this
British gunsmith. Even in the lawless tribal areas, the law of demand and supply remains inviolable, and Darra became a famous weapons manufacturing center within the short span of a few years.
The British called the guns produced by these Hindustanis the ‘pass-
made’ guns while in his book The Way of the Pathans James Pain refers to
them as ‘Afridi’ guns.
Today, most of the local people prefer imported arms for their supe-
rior quality, but if you have a tight budget, it’s advisable to find one of the skilled gunsmiths of Darra and get a gun made on order.
“If you want a hand gun for self defense then you should purchase
a TT pistol from Malang, who is a very skilled gunsmith,” one of my
friends from Mattani told me. “But you have to wait for at least two months because the man already has hundreds of orders.” He added
that if I wanted something fancier, then I should look up Nawabzada Ustad, who is known for producing exact copies of the world-famed
and highly prized Holland & Holland double barrel shotguns. “But his
gun would cost you Rs200,000 a piece and you have to wait for at least three months,” he cautioned.
Now equipped with all this advice I headed to Darra Adam Khel. Ev-
ery vehicle had to undergo strict checking by Frontier Corps personnel and because of the lengthy question and answer session, there was a long line of vehicles at the very first entry point just outside Darra. Once I got there, I was met with disappointment.
“Boy, do you want a gun for hunting? Well, Nawabzada is no longer
here. As you know he is from Mardan and he has now established a
shop in Mardan”. These were the remarks of an old man who introduced himself as Shah Jehan Ustad inside the Malik Market of Darra.
Seeing my disappointment, but obviously excited by the prospect of finding a customer, he went on to interrogate me every bit as forcefully as the FC had.
“Do you have a large salary? How much do you make? Not everyone
can afford Nawabzada’s guns, you know. They are excellent but very expensive.”
As he spoke, he quickly offered me a chair and sat me down, telling
me that the famous Nawabzada had left Darra for good after the 2007
military operation when the entire market was forced to close down for almost a year. Many of the gunsmiths had to relocate. While Naw-
abzada still owns his old shop in Malik Market, the shutters are down permanently.
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“You know I have worked here since 1965, when I came here all the
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was the first man who copied the world famous double barreled Holland & Holland shotguns.
He transferred his skill to his two sons who have now left Darra for good,” claimed Shah Jehan.
This old man and all his family, including
his son and first and second cousins, produced
“There is a myth that gunsmiths of Darra can produce even atom bombs. In fact they cannot even produce a serviceable AK47 automatic rifle!”
only double barrel shotguns. “I’ve made these
guns from day one, but these are hard times for me. Only enthusiasts or very rich people buy
these guns which cost at least Rs50,000 a piece
at minimum.” He went on to complain that he barely managed to sell one gun a month as there was also stiff competition in the market.
“Pakistan is a small market and my quality
is not of international standard. We use locally produced steel which is not really of weapon
grade. We also lack technical knowhow so our
guns are not that durable despite the fact that Darra’s weapon-making units are as old as the
Holland & Holland company itself,” he said with a mixture of pride and regret.
It was strange for me to learn that there are over 2,500 skilled gunsmiths, originally hailing from
the Attock district of Punjab, who have worked in Darra for generations, while another prominent
gunsmith community hails from Azakhel, Nowshera. Contrary to popular belief, only about one per cent of the gunsmiths are locals. The people from Attock speak excellent Pashto, albeit with a Peshawari accent, and are considered to be among the most skilled of gunsmiths.
“I came to Darra in my childhood as one of our neighbours was already working here. I earn
around Rs20,000 a month by colouring (browning) the guns but other people from Punjab make guns and work in different factories in Darra,” said Saadullah, a resident of Attock.
We met a local gunsmith, Farid Shah from Zarghoon Khel, Darra. This man has a workshop set
inside his small shop and has a single helper. “I produce Kalashinkov (AK-47) rifles and 12 gauge shotgun rifles in the Kalashinkov design,” said Farid Shah.
Replying to a question about the quality of his guns, he simply said that his guns were no match
for the Russian, Chinese or Pakistani guns produced in Wah Ordnance Factories. “A gun made man-
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ually from ordinary steel manually cannot match a gun produced in a well equipped factory from weapon grade steel using
computerised machines,” claimed Farid, adding that his guns were bulky and since there is no standardisation in the workshops, it is not possible to replace parts. Hence, if something goes wrong the entire gun has to be thrown away.
“This gun costs Rs12,000 a piece and takes 10 days to com-
plete. But we cannot produce quality automatic weapons. Lo-
cals know it that is why no one would buy a Darra made AK47 rifle in Peshawar or the rest of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P).
These are sent to Lahore and Karachi instead,” he said, add-
ing that despite their inferior quality, the Darra AK-47 was in
Non-locals, and in particular Punjabis, go more for the ‘look’ of the weapon rather than how reliable it is.
great demand in Punjab because original Kalashnikovs cost Rs100,000 a piece.
Clearly disdainful of the standards of his Punjabi clientele,
he goes on to say that a Pathan would ask for a guarantee before purchasing a gun and would most likely go for a serviceable hand gun or shot gun. Their weapons of choice are either
TT pistols, pump action shotguns, double barrels or a Beretta
9mm pistol, as those designs had proved successful over the years. Non-locals, and in particular Punjabis, go more for the ‘look’ of the weapon rather than how reliable it is.
“People from other parts of the country come here with pic-
tures of pistols or automatic rifles and insist that we produce
it for them despite the fact that we cannot simply copy a gun from a picture!” he added.
Modernisation of the Darra workshops is possible but the
biggest hurdle faced by these units is that the entire industry is not regulated, or even legal for that matter.
Recently, a local investor got a license from the K-P home
department and established a unit after making a total investment of Rs8 million but the license was cancelled after eight months following an objection by the law department. “I got a license from the home department and when my unit started
production my license was cancelled,” said the owner of the unit Shah Nawaz Afridi, adding that he was going to court against it.
“Ours is an illegal market and that is the biggest hurdle. But
no one allows us to go legal as is evident from the home department’s decision,” he said with anger, adding that if licenses
were issued to Darra units it would help the government because the arms trade could then be regulated.
“Look at the example of Turkey. A hundred years ago it didn’t
have a single arms manufacturing unit but today they have dozens of well equipped units that are producing guns of local
design and earning the country a good name and a lot of cash by exporting their products,” he said, adding that in Darra,
guns were produced by hand using centuries-old techniques
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“If you want these gunsmiths not to produce guns, you should train them to manufacture auto parts or other useful things”
“A TT gun produced in Darra costs Rs9,000 a piece and it is not
and has undergone heat treatment techniques, surface treatment
China is wholesaled at $50 a piece and I blame the government and
surface from corrosion and wear and tear. Once he starts listing all
of international standard, but a world class TT pistol produced in its flawed policies for it,” he argued, adding that Darra is considered a problem by every government and is blamed for providing arms to
and parkarisation. The latter is a technique used to protect a gun’s
the things the local gunmakers lack, it is difficult to get him to stop. “There is no standardisation in our manufacturing units so every-
terrorists in Karachi and anywhere else in the country.
one produces guns whose parts are not interchangeable. This means
bombs. In fact they cannot even produce a serviceable AK-47 auto-
name,” he said.
“There is a myth that gunsmiths of Darra can produce even atom
matic rifle!” he says, referring to the famed gun that is the weapon
of choice for insurgents and terrorists the world over. “You can’t be a terrorist by using weapons of this poor quality,” he says with finality.
you cannot export them and if you do, it would only earn you a bad Shah Nawaz explained that every new government put a ban on
arms licenses after coming into power and the nine years of Pervez Musharraf were the worst for them.
“If there is no license no one will buy my hand guns. And if there
Among Shah Nawaz Afridi’s pet peeves is that the government
is no local market then how can I survive?” asks arms dealer Hassan
weapon makers. “Take Faisalabad, for example. It is a small city
in any case. The Musharraf government only banned licenses in or-
simply has not had the imagination to harness the potential of these
which has become the hub of the textile industry; the government established a textile engineering college to support the industry,
thus making it one of the most industrialised cities in the country.”
Gul, adding that terrorists and criminals don’t use licensed weapons der to fool the people into thinking they were acting against crime and terrorism, he said as he sat back into his chair.
Still, Gul and his handgun business has better prospects than
In contrast, he says, Darra’s skilled gunmakers have been complete-
others like the forlorn shotgun maker Shah Jehan. The price of a TT
Darra to support the local industry to help it become world class, but
to Rs5,000. “Pistols sell like hot cakes because there is a ban of the
ly ignored. “They could have established an engineering college in that did not happen.”
He even has an argument to counter those who say that weapons
manufacturing should not be encouraged.
“If you want these gunsmiths not to produce guns, you should
train them to manufacture auto parts or other useful things. They could be trained to produce air rifles, but do you know not a single
pistol has jumped to Rs8,000 or Rs9,000 as compared to Rs4,000 display of weapon in the country, and you can carry a pistol in your
pocket. Today, 80 per cent of Darra’s workshops produce TTs or other
types of pistols,” said Gul, adding that in the past 10 years a number of factories had start copying expensive 9mm pistols like the Glock-17, Beretta, Smith and Wesson, and the Czech made CZ-75.
So not all of the legends about Darra Adam Khel are true; they
unit in Darra produces air rifles despite the fact that a world class air-
can’t build F-16s and nuclear weapons. But a lot of the bad press is
to $50 in the case of a TT pistol?”
rorism either. What does exist, however, is a pool of talented gun-
gun is sold at $500 a piece on the international market as compared Shah Nawaz added that the gunsmiths of Darra lacked the re-
quired type of steel which is light in weight and high in strength,
also unjustified, in that the arms makers are not really fuelling tersmiths who, if given the technical training and the chance, could possibly spearhead the economic revival of an entire region.
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FEATURE
in a man’s world From a presidential candidate to members of the parliament and young diplomats, Afghan politics today has more women than ever before TEXT AND PHOTOS BY AYESHA HASAN
Hadeia Amiry
It was a sight rarely seen in traditional Afghan society. Last month, Fawzia Koofi, a presidential candidate for the 2014 elections and one of the 69 female Afghan parliamentarians, arrived to meet a delegation of Pakistani journalists. In the times of the Taliban, this face-to-face encounter between a woman and a group mostly comprising men, would have been inconceivable. Watching her interact so freely and with such obvious confidence, one can see why she’s been
named among the world’s “150 Fearless Women” by The Daily Beast news website for her bold account
of the hardships that women face in Afghanistan in her book The Favoured Daughter. Wearing a solitaire ring and a chunky gold wristwatch on one hand, and carrying a designer bag on her arm, she reminded me a bit of Pakistan’s own foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar.
There’s a great deal of substance to go with the style as well, and Koofi talks eloquently and with
passion. She talks openly about women’s empowerment through education and access to better
healthcare, saying that great strides have been made in the 11 years after the fall of the Taliban regime. She may not quite be the modern Malalai of Maiwand, the celebrated 19th century folk hero
who rallied the Pashtun army against the British in the 1880 Battle of Maiwand, but her struggle is equally heroic.
In a deeply patriarchal society that is yet to fully accept women’s rights and participation in pub-
lic life, Koofi and her fellow women parliamentarians have refused to bow down to rigid ideals and often suffocating customs.
Talking to us, a group of journalists who were part of an Af-Pak fellowship, she describes how
women had to physically grab the microphone to make a speech in parliament because the male MPs would ignore their turn and would oppose resolutions put forward by them, just because they were women.
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Being a shrinking violet in Afghanistan’s often rowdy parliament just isn’t an option. In June
this year, women MPs caused an uproar when Justice Minister Habibullah Ghaleb suggested, durNOVEMBER 4-10 2012
Malalai Joya
ing a conference organised by the Women’s Affairs Committee, that more than 250 women living in 12 foreign-funded shelters were prostitutes. He had said the shelters were encouraging girls to disobey their parents if they were stopped from going outside their homes.
While the women MPs were unable to get Afghan President Hamid Kar-
zai to sack Ghaleb, it was nevertheless an achievement to be able to challenge the opinions of a man on the floor of the parliament.
Likewise, the dismissal of former politician Malala Joya from parlia-
ment in May 2007 for publicly denouncing the presence of those she called warlords and criminals in parliament was followed by condemnation
from female politicians and local women. Three years later, Joya’s name appeared in the list of 100 Most Influential Women prepared annually by Time Magazine.
For Koofi, these are signs of hope. As her achievements would suggest,
female parliamentarians have not settled for just being able to lambast
society and state over the treatment of women. They have managed to wriggle out substantial — though still few — policy changes from the government.
After years of activism by Koofi and her fellow women parliamentar-
ians, the government has fixed a quota for women in higher education
Fawzia Koofi
institutions without which, she says, there is no point in allotting quotas
for women in parliament. Egged on by this development, Koofi, who is also the chairperson of women rights in parliament — the only woman to
have the post of a chairperson — has now proposed to President Karzai that at least one woman member be appointed in the Supreme Court.
“We need to increase women’s capacity for them to be able to effectively
function on the political front,” she says. “This is the first time such a pro-
gramme [like the new higher education policy] has been introduced for
women. Trust me, this was not easy as months of work and campaigning are involved before a policy is approved.”
No matter how difficult it may be to overcome age-old Afghan tradi-
tions, women seem to be slowly making their presence felt in the political domain.
One indication of this is the Taliban’s absence of dissent to the presence
of women in the High Peace Council’s governing body that is assigned
with carrying out peace negotiations with them. Najia Zewari is one of two women who serve on the 15-member body, and it seems the Taliban have accepted her presence.
“The governing body directly negotiates with the Taliban, and that is
not an easy thing to do,” she says. “But I am glad that us women have not once been criticised for being a part of the council.”
Overall, the HPC has 70 members, nine of which are women.
As Afghan women prepare themselves for a post-US withdrawal scenar-
io, many of them are eager to take on new-found opportunities in Afghan
politics. There has been a surge in admissions of female students in the Institute of Diplomacy (ID) in Kabul, and 21-year-old Hadeia Amiry, head
of NGOs at the economics department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kabul, is one of them.
She hopes to become a politician one day, and says that she “would be
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FEATURE happy that the present government is supporting female political participation which, she says, cannot be increased until women receive higher education.
The ID’s one-year mandatory course for future diplomats in-
cludes subjects like politics, global political economy, conflict
“It will take another three decades before Afghanistan is ready
for a female president,” says Faheem Dashti, editor-in-chief of
Kabul Weekly. “I doubt even five men can handle the country after all that it has been through.”
Women parliamentarians are, in fact, aware of their limi-
resolution, policy making, international relations, foreign lan-
tations. A prominent feminist, journalist-turned-politician
neurship.
cessful, she still remains a victim of tradition.
guages, culture, ethics, organisational behaviour and entrepreOther than the course, Amiry is also in the process of self-
training: she wears suits and light makeup, and walks with obvious confidence. She crosses her hands at her back and broad-
Shukriya Barakzai, agrees that even if an Afghan woman is sucFor traditions to change in a patriarchal society, men need to
change their mindset. But the country director of the Open Society Foundation, Najla Ayubi, a judge-turned-human rights ac-
“The governing body directly negotiates with the Taliban, and that is not an easy thing to do. But I am glad that us women have not once been criticised for being a part of the council,” says Najia Zewari Najia Zewari ens her shoulders while she stands to talk to her colleagues and
tivist, says there is still a long way to go before education starts
Yet at the same office, her colleague Samira (not her real name)
government is trying to appease the Taliban, and hence would
guests at the office.
is worried about getting permission from her husband for a oneweek business-related foreign trip. She is a new bride and is not
not want women in decision-making political offices.
But no matter how painstakingly slow the progress on women’s
allowed to attend conferences abroad, even though her husband
political representation is, for a country like Afghanistan, where
eign office.
reigned supreme, it is at least a starting point. It may take many
knew her from before and was aware that she worked at the forThis is what critics point to when they downplay the impor-
tance of Koofi and other likeminded women politicians and activists. To think that allowing women a few displays of opposi-
tion and giving them token political representation amounts to
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changing the minds of men in Afghanistan. She believes that the
any substantial change in the way people think and act around them is naive at best, these critics contend. NOVEMBER 4-10 2012
war has ravaged lives for decades and the patriarchal mindset has
years, even generations, before Afghan women can measure up
to their counterparts in other countries, but the first steps on the
road to emancipation have been taken by women like Koofi and Barakzai.
(This report was written during the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung AfPak fellowship 2012 in collaboration with The Express Tribune).
HUMOUR
all the big decisions are tota-lly taken care of!
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all we have to offer is stink, loincloths and stinky loincloths
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REVIEW
violence begets violence BY AYESHA ARIF
Whether or not you liked Gangs of Wasseypur 1, you will not like GOW 2. And if you haven’t seen either of the GOW series at all, you should just go back to playing Angry Birds or whatever else it is that you like to do. As for me, I didn’t dig GOW 1 but really liked GOW 2 but that might also have something to do with the presence of Manoj Bajpai in the first installment. GOW 2 is akin to a Quentin Tarantino film when it comes to the beautifully choreographed violence, a Martin Scorsese in terms of the gangster genre, but truly and essentially it is director Anurag Kashyap in all his ‘Kashyapness’. It is all that and more, made desi to the point where you can almost smell the gobar (even though the film doesn’t necessarily involve gobar in any way). One can’t really look at the two parts of GOW in isolation from each other, not because one doesn’t know how to but because Kashyap tells one not to. He wants you to think of part two as an extension of the first, and think you shall. The main difference between the parts comes down to one simple word: story. Watching GOW 1 was like reading a Dostoyevsky novel where there are so many characters, you find it impossible to keep track. It’s not just the characters you have to keep track of. The film also has numerous plot points you need to follow because you know they’ll become important eventually. If the first part made you story sick with an overdose of it, part two will leave you story hungry from a lack of it. But hey, wouldn’t you rather be hungry than sick? On the flipside, because part two has practically no new characters, it feels much lengthier than its predecessor which was too long for its own good anyway. Also, to be completely honest, important characters like Faizal Khan and Danish Khan who were introduced in the first part seem slightly underdeveloped and hum drum in the second part. How Faizal follows his predecessors’ path and enters the so-called family business is so Godfather-ly, it’s not even funny. That said, there are two things that make GOW 2 stand notches above not only GOW but most other Indian films. The first is the ensemble cast and the terrific performances they deliver. Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Faizal Khan is out of this world. Huma Qureshi as Mohsina is so good, she makes you wish the story had more of her in it. Aditya Kumar as the little boy Perpendicular is a delight to watch. The second outstanding quality about GOW 2 is the gorgeous violence. The scenes are so handsomely shot, they fill in for the traditional song and dance numbers in regular films. A scene towards the end deserves special mention here. It’s certainly not for the faint-hearted and gets slightly long but is masterfully choreographed nevertheless.
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