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…
A tribal province
Describing Pashtuns on April 26, 1903 at Shahi Bagh Peshawar, Lord Curzon said, "Pathan is a curious mixture. He is a man of war but he is also a born…
Modern tribalism
As the legal struggle over the ‘Muslim ban’ pitches to and fro in the US, a far deeper battle is being fought over what it means to be an American.…
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…
Beneficiaries of riba
The rich and influential in Pakistan, thriving on riba (this Quranic term is wider terms covers all modes leading to earning and enjoying wealth through exploitative means) are not taxed…
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…
The tribal mind
The Pakhtun tribes on both sides of the border are caught in the eye of the storm. In the present circumstances, it is important to know what Pakhtun tribes think…
Is riba-free banking possible?
Islamic banking has grown reasonably fast in the last decade in Pakistan. People invest religiously trusting the fatwa of the so-called Sharia boards of these banks. Are these financial instruments…
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…
Terrorism and tribal dynamics
The `war on terror` and the long-drawn-out violence that shows no signs of giving respite has taught Pakistanis a number of important lessons. One of these is that violence seems…
