(EDITORIAL) In the North-West Frontier of the Indian sub-continent, last week, new and happy history was made when the Prime Minister of Pakistan journeyed into the heart of the tribal territory and received spontaneous ovations ... on a scale unprecedentedin triballand.

Throughout their long rule, the British tried repeatedly to win the goodwill and cooperation of the indomitable inhabitants of these areas, but failed ... . [They] often created an illusion of peace on the Frontier but the proportion of money in their Defence budget which they had to spend on this area betrayed the truth. The tribal Pathans are Muslims first and last, and the presence of the foreigner with some degree of authority over them was a circumstance to which they never reconciled themselves. What made that circumstance infinitely worse was the use of the tribal territory by the British as `training ground` for their armed forces. . .

In order to justify this policy the imperialists gave the tribesmen a bad name by calling them turbulent and a constant menace to the inhabitants of the adjoining plains.