Pakistani farmers angry at fertilizer counterterror tactic

Friday, September 14, 2012

MIR ALI, Pakistan -- Pakistan's effort to cut off the flow of fertilizer to militants using it to make bombs in this key tribal sanctuary along the Afghan border has outraged local farmers, who complain the policy has cut their crop yields in half.

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