Posts Tagged ‘ fata ’

Media Watch | Pak Press Covers Civilian Govt Unlike Foreign Press

Jul 02.2014 - Unlike the Pakistani press, the international press has continued to rely very heavily on state-security sources. In fact, state-civilian sources are cited just 15 percent of the time.
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Media Watch | Jingoism in the Media

Jul 2014

There is high tolerance for state violence without giving much thought to the death and destruction it causes.
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Voices from North Waziristan | Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Jun 2014

VIDEO | Hundreds of thousands have been displaced by the Zarb-e-Azb operation in North Waziristan.
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Refugees from North Waziristan Seek Help

Mar 2014

VIDEO | Refugees from N Waziristan seek government help.
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Do Residents of FATA Count?

Feb 2014

Feb 21 2014—Even as the government suspends peace talks, a discussion about them is still in the air. In FATA , opinions on the peace talks vary, but to many it seems that neither side is serious about the process.
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Army Bombs Mirali | TQ Wire

Dec 2013

Dec 29 2013 – Shaheen ullah sat unable to express what had happened that day. As the Pakistan Army opened indiscriminate fire on the people in Mirali, he had taken his family to his uncle’s mud home for protection. Instead, mortars fell through the home of his uncle, a government school teacher at the...
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Army Kills 40 | TQ Wire

Dec 2013

Dec 22 — At least 40 people have been killed in an attack by the Pakistan Army on Mir Ali, a major town in North Waziristan. Helicopter gunships and  artillery fire began pounding the town following reports that five Pakistani soldiers were killed by militants on Wednesday. The Army claims that it has killed...
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