Ban To Sell Fertilizer Provokes Anger Of Pakistani Farmers

In this Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012 photo, Pakistani customers from the tribal area of Waziristan buy fertilizer at a shop in Bannu, Pakistan. Pakistan’s efforts to cut off the flow of fertilizer to militants using it to make bombs in a key tribal sanctuary along the Afghan border has outraged local farmers, who complain the policy has failed to stymie insurgents but has cut their crop yields in half. <AP Photo/Ijaz Muhammad>

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