The town of Darra Adamkhel lies within Pakistan's conservative tribal belt, where decades of militancy and drug-running in the surrounding mountains earned it a reputation as a "wild west" waypoint between Pakistan and Afghanistan. But a short walk away from the gun market, a town library is thriving.

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