Farishta’s family must have gone through hell when they didn’t see her among themselves at aftar on 15th of May. Their already dry throats would have become more rusty after knowing about Farishta’s disappearance that day. More tragic is the fact that they kept on visiting police station to just lodge a complaint regarding her […]
MWA’s historic move in Waziristan
A region that has witnessed atrocities and catastrophe for years has few days back, on 27th March , seen its first ever mega educational project. This project in total will incur the cost of Rs 880m. Additionally, it will be able to accommodate around fourteen hundred students. Initially it’s a school with limited capacity but […]
When a breadwinner is no more
We witness news of killings on a daily basis. Most of the killed ones happen to be the working class people. They come out of homes to provide for their loved ones a square meal. But fate decides against their will and their souls are taken by militants and unknowns. Not a day goes by […]
The importance of peace
The recent military escalation between Pakistan and India has sent a shiver down the spine of many peace-loving people on both sides of the border. However, for the warmongers, it was a kind of thrilling and entertaining experience. The latter are the ones who have neither heard the ear-splitting sound of missiles or the heart-piercing […]
New Delhi’s aggression is insane
Last morning, Indian fighter planes tried to intrude into Pakistani territory across the Line of Control (LoC). Luckily, a prompt response from the Pakistani Air Force forced the Indian planes to drop their payload near Balakot, a town just a few miles away from my own residence. I soon realised that had the Indian planes […]
Pushtuns in the land of Quaid
Being a tribal Pushtun myself, I can sense the disenfranchisement among Pushtuns in general and the youngsters in particular. The reason is obvious as they demand equal rights. They want peace in their region. And discontinuation of proxy wars in their areas. To put it in simple words, Pushtuns want to live a dignified and […]
Arman Loni defeated patriarchy
In the year 2017, the World Economic Forum released its indexes on gender equality and it ranked Pakistan the second worst in terms of gender equality. Rightly, when we look around, we observe this reality as women are looked down upon by our society. They are kept within the four walls and denied their basic […]
Alamzaib Mahsud: A messiah for missing persons
All of us have dreams which drive us in our lives. Calling them reason of our existence wouldn’t be wrong. For without a dream to pursue we would lack enthusiasm in our lives. However, most of us take refuge in easily attainable dreams. We don’t let ourselves tread the less trodden path. But there are […]
It’s Subordination, Not Following’
We have witnessed that Imran Khan blatantly betrayed his followers trust by altering his principle stance on matters of utmost importance. These compromised principles basically defined his political vision and ideology. And they included claims of transparent governance, meritocracy, equal rule of law, self-accountability and so on and so forth. Conversely, now when he assumed […]
Fata merged! Now what’s next?
Back in May 2017 we saw the merger of erstwhile tribal areas, however, it was done in haste but was appreciated by the peace loving people across Fata. Prior to the merger the tribesmen were promised to annually allocate around 100 billion rupees for developmental work in formerly tribal region. However, now the formerly tribal […]