Islamabad Bombing Exposes Gaps in Pakistan’s Counterterrorism Policy
H. Nawaz Afghan | Islamabad, Pakistan : The suicide bombing at an Imam Bargah in Tarlai, a suburb of Pakistan’s federal capital, Islamabad, has once again exposed critical weaknesses in the country’s security strategy. The attack, which killed at least 31 worshippers and wounded more than a hundred others, raises troubling questions about how the…
No Safe Return: The Silent Struggle of Women Facing Displacement in Pakistan’s Tirah Valley
Women carry the hidden cost of decades long uncertainty conflict and displacement inPakistan’s Tirah Valley By Muhammad Younas : TIRAH VALLEY, Pakistan — The wind in the high mountains of Tirah Valley carries morethan cold. It carries the memory of departure, sweeping through empty courtyards andfrozen paths where families once lived. Here, in the borderlands…
Multiple Militant Attacks Across Balochistan; 4 attackers killed, Situation Under Control
Baluchistan: January 31,2026 : Security forces on Tuesday thwarted a series of coordinated militant attacks across several districts of Balochistan, responding swiftly and effectively at all targeted locations, officials said. According to security sources, militants attempted to target a police van on Quetta’s Saryab Road, where a prompt response by police, later reinforced by Frontier…
When Narratives Clash, Families Pay the Price: The Human Cost of Displacement in Tirah Valley
By Muhammad Younas TIRAH VALLEY / BARA — On the dusty roads leading out of Pakistan’s Tirah Valley, the argument over who is responsible for displacement feels distant to the families sleeping inside vehicles, huddled against the cold, and waiting for their names to be called. For them, survival has little to do with narratives….
Between Return and Re-Displacement: Tirah’s Families Trapped in a Cycle of Uncertainty
By Muhammad Younas TIRAH VALLEY / BARA — When Yaseen Khan returned to his village of Donga in Shalobar, Tirah Valley, eight years ago, he believed the worst chapter of his life had ended. “We came back after years of militancy and displacement,” he says. “My father and I tried to rebuild our home and…
The Cold Walk From Tirah: Lives on the Move Between Conflict and Winter
Report By CBN247 : In the high mountains of Tirah Maidan, silence once carried peace. Today, it carries uncertainty. Families are leaving again. As security operations intensify in parts of this remote region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, thousands of residents are moving out of their villages, not by choice but by necessity. For many, this is…
Uprooted Once More: Tirah Valley Families Face Renewed Displacement Amid Uncertainty and Fear
Muhammad Younas TIRAH VALLEY, KHYBER DISTRICT — For residents of Pakistan’s Tirah Valley, displacement has once again become a looming reality, reopening old wounds for families who only recently rebuilt their lives after years of conflict-driven upheaval. Official notices announcing the registration of families for what authorities describe as a “managed displacement” have spread quiet…
Between Peace and Displacement: Tirah Valley’s Unfinished Struggle
CBN Exclusive Sardar Khan keeps a small bag by the door of his stone house in Tirah Valley. It has been there for weeks. Inside are identity cards wrapped in plastic, school certificates belonging to his children, a change of clothes for each family member, and a faded photograph of his late father. The bag…
Oxford Pakistan Publishing & Mentoring Workshop Strengthens Climate Research and Academic Writing Capacity
A four-day Oxford Pakistan Publishing & Mentoring Workshop, focused on Tackling Climate Change Challenges in Pakistan, was successfully held in Islamabad, bringing together leading academics and emerging scholars from Pakistan and the United Kingdom. The workshop was supported by the British Academy and delivered in collaboration with Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. The workshop…
HEC’s New Authorship Policy Risks Punishing Team Science
By Waseem Hassan : In a well-intentioned bid to bring fairness to the often opaque world of academic creditand promotions, Pakistan’s Higher Education Commission (HEC) introduced a researchpublication policy on 5 November 2025. Its centerpiece is a weighted authorship model: for anypaper with more than three authors, 30% of the credit goes to the first…
