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Tanqeed is Going on Sabbatical

We want to return better and stronger. Tanqeed’s editorial team has decided to suspend publication for 18 months while we rethink and reconfigure TQ. The website will remain live.
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FATA Reforms: A Break from Tradition?

Despite the reforms, it appears that old forms of colonial frontier governance will continue, at least, until the region’s proposed merger 5 years from now. By then, it is likely that FATA’s disaffected classes will have lost faith in the process.
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Cheegha: The Call from Waziristan | Book Review

Mar 2017

Daur’s book is raw: one feels his pain at the state of Waziristan through its pages. It is particularly strong since Daur writes from within Waziristan: we, not they.
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A Poem Off The Page

Jan 2017

Right now the friends of my friends are being disappeared / Soon it will be my friends' turn / And then mine.
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Tanqeed Editor, Poet, Activist is Missing | #RecoverSalmanHaider

Salman Haider, an editor at Tanqeed, disappeared late on Friday, January 6.
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Trump is White Supremacy in Overdrive

Dec 2016
Trump is White Supremacy in Overdrive

Overt white supremacy is more mainstream than it’s been in decades. Jared Taylor, a white supremacist leader who wants to keep the US majority-white and argued that liberated Black people threaten civilization, bluntly said Trump’s victory was about white identity.
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Open Letter to American Liberals

Dec 2016
Open Letter to American Liberals

Are you here to rectify the consequences of you - and millions of other well-meaning liberals’ - complacency in a system of global warfare that’s persisted unchecked for the past 8 years?.
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