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The Fear of Failure

The tapered minds of our children, youth and elders are the consequence of the “Fear” embedded in their minds and the chief fear is the “fear of Failure”. Here, by fear I mean avoiding something in advance with the chances ...

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Global Village and FATA

If you had been born hundred years ago, you would have had no chance to know about all the incidents and other news that happen in the world. There was a time when people had health, education, transport and communication ...

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Afghanistan: The Great Expectations

If someone has read the novel named “The Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens, then he/she might remember the main characters around which the whole plot of novel revolves. The three characters are; Miss Havisham, Estella, and Pip. Miss Havisham, dejected ...

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Honor Killing in Pakistan on rise

As I read the news from Kohistan where a 15 years old Pari Bibi is shot dead by her brother Kamran in the area of Palas police station. The Express Tribune (a Pakistani English daily) detailed the case as “suspicious ...

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A Bad Week For Religious Tolerance

It’s been another bad week for religious tolerance. At least 70 people were killed and 300 injured after Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a faction of the Pakistan Taliban, attacked a crowded public park in the Eastern city of Lahore, to coincide with Easter ...

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Pakistan’s Religious Junta

There is a verse in the highlander’s dialect of Pashto poetry that, “Pa makandi dy na khwashezan, Janana gaday waday ka che bol dy che na”, it implies on those people who have no input to the society but their ...

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FATA Reforms: Pastime of Politicians

Federally Administrative Tribal Areas ( FATA) which is spread over 27200 square kilometer and has the population of about seven million.  FATA consists of seven agencies South and north Waziristan, Khyber, Bajaur, Kuram, Orakzai and Mohmand agency  and six frontier  ...

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