Among the many effects of colonialism are self-pity and self-hatred. Self-pity refers to feeling sorry for oneself as well as...

  Jirgas have been ineffective in Swat and its surrounding areas in the recent past. After the fierce fighting between...

'How can you say that your region faces climate change? Is there any evidence?’ I was asked by some foreign...

A mountainous land along the border to two modern ‘states’, where a certain furious and primitive lot, called ‘tribes’ live,...

Zubair Torwali explains how the knowledge accumulated by a man called Bahadar has served and protected communities for 150 years

Zubair Torwali reviews a book on the management of land in Swat, helping explain the political contours of the valley

Zubair Torwali describes efforts to conserve the acutely endangered Torwali language from Swat in northern Pakistan