With renewed offers for talks via a new video, the Fata-based Taliban is once again making headlines in the national, as well as international media. The timing of this offer makes pe... Read more
The PPP-led government, despite all its failures in tackling the issues of massive corruption, bad governance and the worsening law and order situation, should certainly be credited f... Read more
Chatham House London held a conference (June, 2011) in collaboration with DIIS (Danish Institute of International Studies, Denmark) where Dr. Ashraf Ali, Director FATA Research Centre (FRC)... Read more
The decade-long war on terror that brought death and destruction to the region enormously changed the socio-political, economic and cultural landscape of the Federally Administered Tribal Ar... Read more
The resurgence of the Taliban and affiliated militant groups has been financed primarily by drug money and related crimes. The Haqqani Network relies heavily on income from general criminal... Read more
The unanimous resolution at the All Parties Conference on September 29th made it clear to the United States that Pakistan will not succumb to the increasing American pressure for launching a... Read more
The May 2, killing of Osama Bin Ladin in a US air raid closed the chapter of the world’s most wanted man on the earth. The architect is no more, however; the decades long story of the violen... Read more
The resurfacing of the militant Taliban commander Mullah Faqir Muhammad in Bajaur has come as a major blow to the government’s ongoing peace efforts in the troubled border areas. The Maulana... Read more
The rising militant activities in the just relaxed Kurram Agency have once again put the credibility of the recently concluded peace deal in question. A lethal suicide attack on the Doaba Po... Read more
The latest wave of violent extremism with a series of lethal suicide attacks in Mohmand and Bajaur agencies has come as a big blow to the government’s peace efforts in the volatile tribal be... Read more