Pakistan’s foreign policy is devoid of any history and sense of changing dynamics. We are stuck somewhere in the fault lines of the cold war era with no indication of ever-evolving and emerging regional and global realities. This is best summed up in the disastrous Afghan policy and the comment of the former DG ISI […]
Oppression of FATA women for cultural relativity
The Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR) (1901), operating and functioning in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan, has been in the news and media discussions lately when dealing with the question of the future of FATA post-Operation Zarb-e-Azb. For nearly a century now, FATA has been under these British promulgated laws which are concerned […]
FATA women and the question of Taliban sharia
As Pakistan prepares to define the parameters of talks with the Taliban, certain questions and concerns are missing from our media. Specifically, the question of women in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) has, so far, been omitted from the discourse in the mainstream media. During the past decade, reporting on FATA has largely been […]
Waking up to FATA
When we talk about FATA, the emotions stirred in urban Pakistanis are only related to drone attacks causing civilian casualties, fuelling terrorism and violating our sovereignty. We have recently seen a popular political party raising the issue of drones, conducting protests and ultimately closing the NATO supply line going through the Peshawar-Torkham border. Urban Pakistan, […]