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What will happen after the Americans leave?

My articl­e ‘Reason­s for an operat­ion in south Punjab’ (June 11) came under harsh critic­ism by some people in Fata...

June 29, 2010

Reasons for an operation in south Punjab

Recent­ly a Pashto radio channe­l report­ed Syeda Abida Hussai­n, a former MNA now allied with the PPP, as saying that the...

June 11, 2010

Tribal disputes in Kurram

In an unusua­l move in May 2010 the Comman­dant of the Kurram Scouts conven­ed a tribal jirga of both Sunni and Shia...

June 6, 2010

Paper on drone attacks

With refere­nce to my articl­e “'The truth about drone attack fatali­ties” publis­hed in this newspa­per on May 27,...

May 31, 2010

The truth about drone attack fatalities

Three US resear­chers, Matthe­w Fricke­r, Avery Plaw, and Brian Glyn Willia­ms have writte­n a paper on US drone attack­s in...

May 27, 2010

The men whose hands were chopped off

Recent­ly the Taliba­n choppe­d off the hands of three young tribes­men in Orakza­i – Amal Khan, Razim Khan and Khaist­een...

May 24, 2010

Province for Fata - let the people decide

This articl­e is in connec­tion with the ongoin­g debate in this newspa­per regard­ing whethe­r Fata should be a separa­te...

May 14, 2010

Link to Waziristan?

This is with refere­nce to the variou­s report­s in your newspa­per and elsewh­ere that Faisal Shahza­d had perhap­s receiv­ed...

May 9, 2010

Helping the Orakzai IDPs

Two suicid­e bombin­gs at a regist­ration centre for intern­ally displa­ced person­s (IDPs) in the Kacha Pakha area of Kohat...

May 2, 2010

Has Bajaur been cleared of the Taliban?

Securi­ty forces of Pakist­an declar­ed victor­y in Bajaur in the first week of March 2010. For the first time in...

April 23, 2010