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Taliban: Agent or Victim?
By Afiya Shehrbano Zia. Originally published in openDemocracy. Just as in other patriarchal societies, violence against women (VAW) in Pakistan is endemic and cuts across all classes and ethnicities....
View ArticleCode Pink, the Taliban, and Malala—The Sequel!
By Meredith Tax. Originally published in Meredith Tax’s blog. Last week I wrote a piece raising questions about the Code Pink delegation to Pakistan to fight drones. It was published Oct. 13 on...
View ArticleWar Against Polio or Polio Workers?
By Afiya Shehrbano Zia. Originally published in openDemocracy. Barely two months after the shooting of Malala – the girl targeted by the Taliban in Swat for “secularizing society” through her campaign...
View ArticlePakistan: of peace talks and peace prizes
By Afiya Shehrbano Zia. Originally published in openDemocracy. During the initial years of the ‘war on terror’, most Pakistanis denied that there was such an entity as the Taliban in the tribal belt...
View ArticleWill the End of Conflict Mean Peace?
By Afiya Shehrbano Zia. Originally published in The News, Pakistan. The decade-old debate of whether the conflict in Waziristan is ‘ours’ or ‘theirs’ has intensified since we elected in a new...
View ArticleSceptical silence: Pakistan’s operation in North Waziristan
By Afiya Shehrbano Zia Originally published on openDemocracy 5050, June 23, 2014 Will the latest military operation launched by Pakistan against the Taliban in North Waziristan expose and loosen the...
View ArticleBeing Malala
By Afiya Shehrbano Zia Published Oct. 13, 2014 on openDemocracy 5050 After surviving an attempt at her life by the Taliban, Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai became a global spokesperson for girls...
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The Antis: Anti-imperialist or Anti-Feminist?
First published in openDemocracy 5050, Nov 19, 2014 A recent article on “imperialist feminism” accuses the US women’s movement of being a cheerleader for American empire from the war in Afghanistan to...
View ArticleTaliban Stockholm syndrome
By Afiya Shehrbano Zia. This article was first published in Pakistan’s The News On Dec. 21, 2014. The calculated massacre of schoolchildren by the Taliban in Peshawar began as a hostage situation. But...
View ArticleThe Injury of Blasphemy
By Afiya Shehrbano Zia. This article was first published in Pakistan’s The News on Dec. 21, 2014. Examining the material gains, hegemonistic benefits and fiction of Islamic identity that are enabled by...
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