Women barred from voting in North Waziristan. Umar Daraz Wazir reports.
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Posts Tagged ‘ fata ’
Elections 2013 | TQ Wire
A Bitter Harvest: Elections in FATA
اردو | PLUS VIDEO | Caught between the insurgency, the Pakistan army and drone attacks, Pakistanis in FATA gear up for the elections.
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Issue III: Solidarity Politics
From Bara to Quetta to Palestine, we consider solidarity politics this month.
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Abuses on the Path to Salvation
All told, one has to credit the AI researchers for being uncompromising in their denunciation of army abuses. This has always been the honest liberal’s central virtue: unremitting defense of everyone’s right to have rights. Years ago, in his conclusion to The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon observed acerbically that those who never...
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Lives in Brief | @dronestream
This is a live project by Josh Begley. The Twitter stream below is continually being updated. Josh Begley, maker of the drone app that Apple rejected, has been tweeting every American drone strike since 2002 on Twitter @dronestream. The project, which began on Dec 11th and was supposed to last only 10 minutes, is now...
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Waziris Mourn Their Dead After Army Attacks | Notes from the Ground
Waziris Mourn Their Dead After Army Attacks | Tanqeed from Tanqeed on Vimeo. VIDEO: Waziris carry the coffins of their dead in a massive funeral procession and march following an attack by the Pakistani Army on its own citizens. The Pakistani Army subjected Mir Ali, one of North Waziristan’s heavily populated areas, to heavy...
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