On a cold, windy day in December 2009, a school building in the isolated Malakand region of northwestern NWFP (today renamed Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) was being guarded round-the-clock by soldiers. All
On 28 July, a family in Peshawar received a distressing call from relatives in Swat's Madyan resort town. The caller and his family had, as a last-ditch effort
On the North Waziristan town of Mir Ali, a Dawar tribesman is in the midst of shifting his family to a new home. The reason: he has just discovered local
Even as the Pakistan Army goes on an all-out offensive against home-grown militants, the insurgents themselves have stepped up their attacks on the Pakistani public.
The people of some of Pakistan’s strategically placed frontier areas are finally getting political rights. Not everyone is happy about this.
The death of the head of the Taliban in Pakistan appears to have confused the insurgency as much as it has the rest of the world.
In May last year,
Beijing is pouring money and labour into improving the highway linking the Chinese Xinjiang region to Pakistan's Northern Areas and to the sea – even as events in the
