Erstwhile FATA/PATA
The merger of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (PATA) with respective provinces, after the assent of President to The Constitution (25th Amendment)…
Erstwhile FATA/PATA
The FBR has recently issued the following circulars in respect of streamlining the exemptions available in the erstwhile FATA/PATA as discussed above. These are reproduced below for ready reference: “C.No.7(1)TIPU/IR/2020…
Merger with Pata
The proposed 22nd Amendment Act, 2015, has been tabled by a few tribal MNAs to merge Fata with Pata. This is a significant moment in our history. It would have…
Fata or Pata?
After 68 years of our history, Fata parliamentarians realised the need for mainstreaming Fata – with the 22nd Amendment, which is the change of ‘Federally Administered Tribal Areas’ to ‘Provincially…
The corporate climate compass
Climate change is one of the most pressing global issues today, encompassing every facet of society, including corporations which significantly contribute to climate change through their gigantic share of greenhouse…
Reparations
ONLY mankind is brutal to its own species. A passage from Mani Shankar Aiyar’s latest book A Maverick in Politics (2024) scrapes the scab of memory, reminding one of the…
The 26th Amendment in judicial focus: Part – I
There are multiple ways to look at the 26th Constitutional Amendment that Pakistan’s parliament passed on Oct 21, 2024. Since the passage of the 25th Amendment in May 2018, there…
No talks with TTP
THOSE in favour of negotiating with the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan mistakenly believe that the group is a legitimate insurgent movement. The Afghan Taliban see them as a comparable entity, deserving…
The IHC six
LETTERS are the new black in Pakistani politics. If the week before it was about the letters related to Aitchison College, more recently, pen was put to paper in the Islamabad High…
Mainstream Pakistan
THE revelations from the Dubai leaks, detailing the expensive overseas properties owned by the country’s power elite, have not surprised the populace. Similarly, news of Pakistan’s total debt and liabilities reaching a record…
