[Listen to audio report here] By Mustafa Qadri It has been a relatively quiet winter in Peshawar with few bombings. There’s a sense that life is slowly returning to normal. But take a short drive north of the city and the situation is quite different. The village of Adezai marks the boundary between Peshawar city and [...]
Pakistan’s Taliban battles for power in Peshawar
March 10th, 2011 · No Comments
Tags: Adezai · Afghanistan · Federally Administered Tribal Areas · Karachi · Pakistan · Pakistan Army · Pakistan Taliban · Peshawar · Qari Ayub · Taliban · Tehreek-e-Taliban · terrorism
FATA’s Hindus migrate to India
March 10th, 2009 · No Comments
A group of 35 Hindus, nearly half of them women, from Pakistan have crossed over to India and asked the government to allow them to settle in the country, Indian media reported Monday.
Tags: Federally Administered Tribal Areas · Hinduism · Islam · Pakistan · refugees · Taliban
Zardari outlines plan for FATA
December 19th, 2008 · No Comments
The government is working on a new model of economic development, which envisaged that the tribal people will be made shareholders in various development projects with a view to weaning the unemployed youth away from militancy.
Tags: Asif Ali Zardari · democracy · Federally Administered Tribal Areas · Pakistan