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…
Afghanistan without illusions
Pakistan’s understanding of its northwestern neighbour is beset with hubris and delusion masquerading as familiarity. The increasingly bold and bloody attacks on our soldiers and Pakistan’s response indicate that it…
Pakhtuns and violence of border fencing
IF you want to see how the Pakhtuns cope with militarisation, visit any crossing point on the Pak-Afghan border and observe not only their miseries, but also how this wretchedness…
Women in the mainstream
Good decisions require good data to base them on, and this has been a challenge in the Merged Areas (MA) because historically it has been insufficiently studied and surveyed. A…
TTP resurgence?
RESPONSIBLE for some of the most ferocious attacks inside Pakistan, the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan’s destructive capabilities seem to have diminished. There are many who wonder about the whereabouts of the group…
New districts
THE de-notification of Lehri’s district status and inclusion of Rakhshan as a new administrative division in Balochistan, along with the notification of Kolai Pallas Kohistan as another district in KP,…
The protest of the Pashtun
Our journey began in pitch darkness. I came of age at a time when my family and our entire community, the Mehsud (locally called Maseed) tribe, was forced to leave…
PTI’s opportunity in the former Fata
One of the less heralded aspects of the PTI’s election win is the overwhelming margin of its victory in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. One could argue that this general election was the…
Karachi: hope vs fear
I visited Karachi recently after a very long time. Once called the city of lights, Karachi had fallen over the years into the darkness of lawlessness, staged ethnic rivalries and…
Our Afghan imbroglio
The recent violence in Kabul and the US drone attacks on militant hideouts in the bordering areas speak volumes about the rising tensions on Pakistan’s western border. The consecutive suicide…
