The election fervour in the tribal areas, now merged into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa without proper arrangements to replace the old colonial system, was...
The conferences and seminars on Fata, that I have attended so far, have one thing in common: analysts from Fata are invariably outnumbered by...
After the tragic incident in Lahore DHA, the police not only arrested people who looked like Pakhtuns, but reportedly also didn’t stop the...
The long awaited Fata reforms have been made controversial. They were neither handled with due care nor in accordance with the well-established...
The schism among tribespeople on the integration of Fata with KP came to the fore during a seminar arranged at the Pearl Continental Hotel in...
Why Fata has remained the ‘Federally Administered Tribal Areas’ for so many decades is not difficult to understand if one looks in...
The writer is a former ambassador. The five-member committee on Fata reforms has presented its recommendations to the prime minister; they are now...
In a recently held press conference the military spokesman enumerated success stories of Operation Zarb-e-Azb, claiming that Fata has been cleansed...
The Quetta blast deprived Balochistan of the cream of its educated people, many of whom had the intention and the potential of playing important...
When Dr Ashraf Ghani took over as president of Afghanistan he was perceived as the man to do business with since, unlike all others on the political...