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Articles with tag: FATA

Defeating the Taliban in Pakistan

Waleed Ziad   Nov 3, 2009   interacts: 43

Unless six key challenges of implementing aid in FATA are tackled, we’re wasting our tax dollars. And if we lose FATA, we lose this war.

If the Deal in Swat Works

Zubair Torwali   Mar 15, 2009   interacts: 5

Swat will be a lesson for other regions of the country. It has already given the message that in Pakistan one can make his demand accepted only through the means of guns and brute power.

In memory of the Swat valley

Kamal Siddiqi   Feb 9, 2009   interacts: 12

One has to go no further than the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar to hear the tales of woe of the people of Swat and other parts of the NWFP.

The Taliban and Our National Interest!

H P   Nov 18, 2008   interacts: 339

The Pakistani Taliban is not an ideological but an opportunistic anarchic group. The farrago of Sharia is a cover to step up recruitment to create anarchy in FATA and NWFP.

America's Opportunity in Pakistan's Tribal Belt

ziad haider   Jul 28, 2008   interacts: 98

a key question on Islamabad ’s mind is the fate of stalled legislation creating reconstruction opportunity zones (ROZs) to spur development and combat militancy in FATA.

Swat: Can the deal work?

Zubair Torwali   Jul 10, 2008   interacts: 246

After the peace deal between the Taliban and the government people thought that normal life would return to the troubled district of Swat.

Militarily Troubled Pakistan and Terribly Administered Tribals

Pukhtoon Khan   Jul 29, 2007   interacts: 153

Strategy that can prevent potential extremism in the Fraudulently Administered Tribal Areas, FATA.

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