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...
What the Viceroy of British India, Lord Curzon could not do in Waziristan we have now done with considerable ease. We did not opt for a patchwork...
The writer is a former ambassador. A lot has been written in the print and electronic media about mainstreaming Fata but nothing concrete has...
The death of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour who was killed in a drone strike in Balochistan near the border with Afghanistan has raised more...
The tragic incident in Kabul on April 19, in which 64 persons lost their lives and 347 were wounded, not only derailed the process of reconciliation...
The writer is a former ambassador. Whether to make Fata a province or merge it with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa – these are the two options being...
The tribal areas of Pakistan originally consisted of five agencies: South Waziristan, North Waziristan, Kurram, Khyber and Malakand. But Malakand...
The Quadrilateral Coordination Group , comprising representatives from Afghanistan, China, Pakistan and the United States, held its fourth meeting...
Why has Fata literally remained the ‘Federally Administered Tribal Areas’ for so long? What has prevented the government from...
Dr Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai made a hat trick by meeting Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif three times in two
"Fata has no voice" - this is what Governor Mehtab Ahmed Khan said at the time of taking oath as th
