Alienated Fata
The political and judicial vacuum, coupled with bad governance and massive corruption in state institutions that resulted in creating a gap between the state and society, ultimately led to the…
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…
A complex matrix
A NUMBER of events in the last two weeks in the southern part of Fata and renewed militant attacks in northern Fata and the urban centres seem to have apparently…
The crumbs that fall from high table
How much more can we bleed? Or has the jugular vein been already severed? We were assured by Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan that Islamabad had been made impregnable…
Uncertain times
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan had once remarked that Pakhtun women were more intelligent than their husbands. He had of course meant no offence to the men but only expected them…
Farcical debate
With a congressional hearing in the United States on the drone issue set for April 23, some groups in that country are making efforts to create a consensus for bringing…
Fata misrule
The tirade unleashed against the appointment of a tribesman as governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa indicates only one thing, and that is the mindset of those who work against the interests…
The tasks ahead for Fata’s salvation
A demand that the people of Fata have been making for so many years has finally been accepted and a son of the soil – Shaukatullah Khan, MNA-elect from Bajaur…
A treacherous deal
TERROR has struck with renewed ferocity, reminding us yet again of the wages of appeasement. The suicide bombing that killed and wounded scores of worshippers inside a mosque in Peshawar raises questions…
Terror tide
In recent years, the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) has increasingly become a problem in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), and the number of targeted attacks on law-enforcement agencies (LEAs) and civilians…
