Reportage

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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Wage Theft, Hunger, and Neglect in the Kingdom of Heaven

Oct 2016

Those in Saudi Arabia’s corridors of power seem to forget that the kingdom in the middle of the dessert was built by migrant labor.
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Kashmir: A Rebel’s Life

Aug 2016

In Kashmir, every child knows we are under occupation. This is not something we are taught. It is just a belief we have from birth, it is an inherent understanding in us, that we are not Indians.
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Reckoning with Zarb-e-Azb | INTRO

By TQ
Jun 2016

A special series on the military venture that, two years later, still hasn't quite ended.
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Suspect Citizens

Suspect Citizens

اردو | The logic of security, rather than welfare, has governed the approach of civilian and military officials towards the million people who have been displaced from North Waziristan by Operation Zarb-e-Azb--to tragic consequences.
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Zarb-e-Azb | TIMELINE

By TQ
Jun 2016

A timeline in progress of Operation Zarb-e-Azb
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Zarb-e-Azb | PRIMER

By TQ
Jun 2016

A primer on the operation.
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