Fatal attraction
India and Pakistan have again begun a familiarly deadly minuet of violent movements across a hitherto silent Line of Control. The two conjoined twins that were mid-wifed through Partition’s violence…
Fata: now or never
Power corrupts and tilts towards absolutism when it has no moral, political and legal checks. While absolutism is mostly a story of the past, in Pakistan’s tribal areas it still…
Will Fata always be Fata?
A lot has been written in the print and electronic media about mainstreaming Fata but nothing concrete has emerged so far except the creation of a five-member commission by the…
Let’s save Fata
Mainstreaming Fata is not a joke; it should not be left just to the few parliamentarians from that area or the five-member committee constituted by the government for that purpose.…
Fatal artistry
Who buries the nation’s undertaker — the man who volunteered to inter the corpses of the unknown, the disowned? In other countries, the state usually shoulders that unpleasant responsibility. In…
A law for Fata
The federal government has decided, in principal, to end the legal tyranny of political agents (PA) by abolishing the Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR), If it is implemented as planned, the…
The future of Fata
Fata is that unfortunate part of Pakistan for which the government has no policy, with the status quo being used as the only way of managing these areas. The people…
A new Fata
In the wake of the successful military operation in the Federally Administrated Tribal Areas, the demand for reforms here — referred to in Point 12 of the National Action Plan…
Fata revisited
The immense success of Operation Zarb-e-Azb has brought calm and tranquility not only in Fata but the entire country. Terrorist activities have reduced to a considerable extent, and their networks…
