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Zia Ur Rehman

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If they didn't, then who killed Naqeebullah Mehsud?

If they didn't, then who killed Naqeebullah Mehsud?
27.09.2026 30

Dawn Prism

Zia Ur Rehman

KARACHI AND THE LONG SHADOW OF 9/11

A quarter of a century after the infamous events of September 11, 2001, which launched America’s so-called ‘War on Terror’,

13.09.2026 50

Dawn (Magazines)

Zia Ur Rehman

Pakistan’s Invisible Manufacturing Economy

Pakistan's manufacturing sector is routinely described as being in decline. Shrinking shares of GDP, stagnant export baskets, and low industrial...

14.05.2026 50

The Friday Times

Zia Ur Rehman

Belief, border and bombs: What long-term instability in Iran means for Pakistan

For a country battling insurgencies in two provinces, facing a hostile Afghan Taliban regime, and grappling with deep internal divisions, instability...

04.03.2026 150

Dawn Prism

Zia Ur Rehman

NON-FICTION : Change and upheaval in the tribal areas

A very timely scholarly book moves beyond conventional depictions of conflict in Pakistan’s ‘merged districts’ to illuminate

28.12.2025 40

Dawn (Magazines)

Zia Ur Rehman

CAN THE TLP BE BROUGHT UNDER CONTROL?

TLP’s story is not just about weaponisation of religion — it’s about class, power and a state caught between crackdown and appeasement.

09.11.2025 30

Dawn (Magazines)

Zia Ur Rehman

RETHINKING THE TALIBAN DOCTRINE

Four years on from the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, the optimism surrounding what was being hailed

17.08.2025 100

Dawn (Magazines)

Zia Ur Rehman

Fear and loathing in Bajaur as military operation looms

Whether negotiations succeed or falter, the people of the tribal belt remain suspended in an uneasy calm, caught between promises of peace and the...

07.08.2025 60

Dawn Prism

Zia Ur Rehman