By strengthening the writ of a militarized state, we are making a second Peshawar more, not less, likely.
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Why Peshawar Must Not Be Our 9/11
Displaced from Tirah
English | اردو Nearly fifty thousand people have been displaced from Tirah Valley in Khyber agency following clashes between the between the Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) and the government-allied organization, Ansar-ul-Islam (AI). While Khyber Agency’s political office put the estimate at 50,000, unofficial sources doubled it, saying almost 100,000 locals had been forced to migrate out of...
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The Forgotten Battle for Tirah Valley
Thousands of men, women and children have fled Tirah Valley in Khyber Agency, after the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) successfully gained control of the area last week. Ibrahim Shinwari reports on the battle, and the lives, forgotten by a Pakistan in the grips of election fever. Ali Akbar Shalobar, 35, was left with no other...
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Paying for their Crimes
It is as if we—the marginalized communities of northern Pakistan—are made to stand in the dock for crimes the Pakistani state and its establishment have been committing. “Yes, but you have also girls as teachers at your school who mix with your male colleagues,” Moamber, a Talib, who was my former schoolmate, told me....
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