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By Zia Ur Rehman August 23, 2021 https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/how-taliban-s-sweep-in-afghanistan-changed-pakistan-s-security-priorities-49409 Islamabad’s recent outreach to Baloch separatist groups is part of its policy...

By Zia Ur Rehman 2 MAR 2021 https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/pakistan-s-shia-mercenaries-return-from-syria-posing-a-security-threat-44655 KARACHI —  Wajid Ali, a 16-year-old resident of Pakistan’s Kurram district, was...

By Zia Ur Rehman September 25, 2020 https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/pakistan-s-gilgit-baltistan-between-the-kashmir-conflict-and-china-40053 ISLAMABAD — As legislative elections in Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) are likely to be...

By Zia Ur Rehman January 8, 2020 https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/pakistan-s-trouble-with-accepting-campus-politics-32797 Student unions were banned in the country in the 1980s but now...

Pakistan’s neglected Thar desert region suffers from every development hurdle you can name, but its recently accelerated growth is leaving...

Although Islamabad has always supported Kashmir’s UN-sanctioned Right to Self Determination, it has also been wary of Kashmiri nationalism that...

At least 14,000 people have been bitten by stray dogs in the last eight months, while the municipality struggles to...

Zia Ur Rehman, July 19, 2019 https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/what-s-behind-the-us-decision-to-proscribe-a-baloch-militant-group-28363 The US decision last week to designate a Pakistani separatist group as a...

By Zia Ur Rehman May 20, 2019 https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/pakistani-madrassas-an-indispensable-institution-a-worry-for-the-state-26787 KARACHI— Mukaram Ali, a 28-year-old madrassa student, graduated on May 5, completing a...

by Zia Ur Rehman TRT World April 18, 2019 https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/pakistani-taliban-between-infighting-government-crackdowns-and-daesh-25976 SOUTH WAZIRISTAN, Pakistan — It took three days of back and...