After an eight-year absence, peace militias, locally known as aman lashkars, which were created to keep terrorists at bay, have been reinstated in Lakki Marwat with groups being formed at the ...

This strategy helped Vietnam and the US conclude a peace treaty in the seventies. It may work in the subcontinent ...

“The tribals pressed on, fearing that their own lashkars would desert them if resistance from the 21 Sikh soldiers continued. They also began worrying that if it is so difficult to overrun one ...

The photo editor also pointed out that when a photographer is a white European like Italian Massimo Berruti, who lived long term in Pakistan’s Swat valley, embedded with Lashkars – a civilian ...

He felt that breaches of canals and other irrigation structures could have been avoided had the previous government appointed required engineers and ‘lashkars’, who monitor water management.

With no care for caution and consequences, Pakistani officials have been involved in a self-defeating exercise for over a decade now. Ironic and tragic both. On the one hand, the ISPR keeps ...