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The Wire
March 13, 2018
Additionally, the FCR affords the state the power to inflict collective punishment on the Pashtun tribes, clans or families for the offences committed by ... As early as 1973-74, Pakistan facilitated an Afghan jihadist Jalaluddin Haqqani to establish his jihadist network in the North Waziristan Agency (NWA),Ãâà...
Business Standard
March 4, 2018
The FCR were seen as a useful weapon to keep the tribes in control. That said what is apparent is the price an ethnic population pays ... This was the result of some sustained campaigning by Pashtun activists from FATA, especially North Waziristan. The agency had become home to several Islamist groupsÃâà...
The News International (blog)
March 2, 2018
I came of age at a time when my family and our entire community, the Mehsud (locally called Maseed) tribe, was forced to leave our South Waziristan ... For example, the residents of South Waziristan and neighbouring North Waziristan tribal agencies were forced to acquire Watan or homeland cards.
The News International (blog)
February 27, 2018
Malik Mumtaz, 48, had been working for 'The News International', Urdu daily 'Jang' and Geo TV as correspondent in North Waziristan for 20 years. He also contributed to the Pashto language ... Malik Mumtaz belonged to a respectable family of Dawar tribe. He had left behind a widow, two sons and aÃâà...
DAWN.com
February 25, 2018
For South and North Waziristan Agencies, locals were issued special cards without which they could not enter, referred to as 'Waziristan visa' by locals. ... Regulation (FCR), 1901, has been employed several times whereby all male members of a tribe are punished for the act of one person from the tribe,Ãâà...
Geo News, Pakistan
February 21, 2018
The murder of Mehsud, an aspiring model who hailed from South Waziristan and did menial jobs in Karachi, sparked protests by members of his Mehsud tribe. These peaceful protests were later joined by fellow Pashtuns from other tribes. The 10-day long dharna in Islamabad caught the imagination ofÃâà...
New York Times
February 14, 2018
He also led his own breakaway faction of fighters from the Mehsud tribe, which inhabits the rugged, semiautonomous South Waziristan region along the ... hiding in Khost Province of Afghanistan after the Pakistani Army launched an offensive in 2014 against local and foreign militants in North Waziristan.
The Express Tribune
February 12, 2018
Last month, the Mehsuds, the predominant tribe of SWA, threatened to abandon their region if authorities failed to clear landmines and unexploded ... Security officials say efforts to sanitise the region were stepped up following the completion of Operation Zarb-e-Azb in neighbouring North Waziristan, whichÃâà...
MENAFN.COM
February 11, 2018
It isn't surprising that the nucleus of the protest has originated from Masood tribe (pronounced Maseed in the local Pashto dialect) of South Waziristan political agency. Masoods have faced ... The unemployed youth in both South and North Waziristan flocked into the ranks of Taliban. Unlike Wazirs whoÃâà...
Gandhara
December 31, 1999
He told tribal leaders, lawmakers, and professionals from among the Mehsud tribe that the state has spent the past seven decades using them for its own strategic ends. ... “Then South and North Waziristan within Pakistani territory were chosen to [support the latest phase of the war in Afghanistan],” he said.
