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Matee Ullah Khan

Matee Ullah Khan and members of his ski school at the Malam Jabba ski area in Pakistan's Swat Valley.

Pakistan’s only ski school is back in business, in the ‘Switzerland of Pakistan’

Sports

Pakistan has some of the most famous mountains in the world — the Himalayas, the Hindu Kush, Karakorum. But there isn’t much in the way of skiing, unless you’re a daredevil. But that may be changing.

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