It is apparently the world's longest cross-border belt and only beaten in total length by a 60-mile-long belt that carries phosphate from a mine in Morocco to the coast.To get anywhere close to it you have to take what foreign newspapers have dubbed "the world's deadliest road", because of the high rate of traffic accidents.
Shield areas in general are regarded as continental nuclei, the observation often being made that most continental shields are bordered by belts of folded rocks of post-Precambrian age.
Oscar de la Renta, even in furs, gives his customers a chance to play roles from Poor Pitiful Pearl (in a coat made of bits and pieces of unrecognizable furs) to Russian empress (in coats lavish with fur borders and belted in gilded leather and jewels).
The Upper Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests and the drier Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands cover the lowlands along the Uttar Pradesh border in a belt locally known as Bhabhar.
It's most obvious in the northern belt bordering Turkey, seeping south and east toward the Iraqi border, where many towns and villages have been pulverized by regime airstrikes and artillery, and where even colors seem to have died.
Pakistani forces are in almost daily combat with militants in the tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, as are NATO and Afghan forces in this country.
Denmark borders the coniferous belt and has therefore been receptive to the establishment of plantations of spruce and fir, particularly in parts of Jutland where extensive wastelands of dune vegetation and heather were reclaimed for forestry.
In Monday's attack, officials said that a vehicle loaded with an estimated 90 pounds of explosives was detonated by remote control in Jamrud, close to Peshawar, which borders the tribal belt.
Opposition to his pro-American stance stiffened this week after some of the most intensive fighting since the army entered the lawless tribal belt bordering Afghanistan at America's behest in 2001.The army has received a drubbing from militants with links to the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
Since elections in May, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, bordering the tribal belt, has been governed by the party of Imran Khan, a charismatic politician who has a reputation for being soft on the Taliban, yet who has also increased the provincial education budget by 30 percent.
