A Troubled Hunt

摘要

HE WAS A LEGENDARY JIhadi leader who preached holy war, took on the greatest power of his day and caused thousands of deaths in terror strikes. But as British imperial forces hunted for him year after year in the 1930s and '40s, Mirza Ali Khan simplydisappeared into the folds of what are now the Pakistani tribal regions. The search for Khan, who was better known to his British pursuers as the Fakir of Ipi, petered out as the decades passed and people lost interest, "The fakir was never captured," says Pakistani scholar Husain Haqqani, "People say he died of natural causes in 1960."