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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

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 30

Dawn Prism

Zia Ur Rehman

NON-FICTION: TALES FROM THE SEASIDE

In a first-of-its-kind compilation of Urdu essays, a fisherman shares his lived memories of traditional fishing practices, the...

29.06.2025 20

Zia Ur Rehman

THE NIGHT-BITTEN DAWN OF THE FATA MERGER

The May 28, 2018 merger of the erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas into Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa was meant to herald the

25.05.2025 10

Zia Ur Rehman

Pakistan’s security situation is off the tracks. Can the authorities reclaim control?

Security analysts warn rising threats from Islamist extremists and separatist insurgents present a complex security challenge that cannot be addressed...

13.03.2025 8

Dawn Prism

Zia Ur Rehman

HOSTAGE TO THE DACOITS

Armed with increasingly sophisticated weapons and bolstered by greater networking, northern Sindh dacoits operate with near

09.03.2025 10

Zia Ur Rehman

THE ROOTS OF KURRAM’S cycles of BLOODSHED

The November 21 ambush on civilian passenger convoys going from Parachinar in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP) Kurram district to Peshawar shocked the...

01.12.2024 6

Zia Ur Rehman

Hanging in the balance

W hen I began my career in journalism in 2009, I never imagined it would lead me to cover the very conflicts I grew up witnessing in Karachi—ethnic...

03.11.2024 5