PMDC told to increase seats for students from tribal areas
The Senate Standing Committee on States and Frontier Regions on Monday gave the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) a week to increase seats for students from the tribal districts…
Options for the tribal areas
The people of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) have suffered enormously over the past fifteen years, for no fault of their own. For the internally displaced persons, the deprivations…
Turmoil in tribal areas
Our armed forces are engaged in fierce battles in the Khyber and Kurram agencies and on a somewhat smaller scale in the other tribal agencies to re-establish the writ of…
Tribal areas
There was an element of disbelief everywhere when Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani said on December 12 that the military offensive in South Waziristan was almost over and now the…
Merged areas: livelihood dilemma
THE former Fata districts of Pakistan have some of the worst economic indicators and highest unemployment rates of any region in the country. Historically, these areas have never been very…
Ungoverned areas
THE war against terrorism has put ungoverned and weakly governed spaces into the limelight, and governance in such areas is being debated. Globally, various options, including kinetic, administrative, and constitutional…
Tribal transition
HISTORICALLY, Pakistan’s tribal areas have long stood at the crossroads of governance, culture, and geopolitics. These areas have navigated the complexities of autonomy, marginalisation, and integration within the broader national…
Legal tribalism
Someone has to be the bearer of bad news. So here it is: don’t hold your breath for meaningful legal reform. We won’t let it happen. We understand that in…
Free trade areas
There is hardly any border in the world which is not disputed. Some borders suffer from very serious disputes and others with not-so-serious ones and in-between there are many border…
Marginal and fragile areas: Will democracy work?
Is democracy the panacea of all the ills that are facing this nation? The answer as any one will tell you are that one shoe size does not fit anyone…
