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Zia Ur Rehman

Zia Ur Rehman

Zia Ur Rehman is a journalist based in Karachi, Pakistan. He's a regular contributor to The New York Times and The News.

Zia Ur Rehman is a journalist based in Karachi, Pakistan. He's a regular contributor to The New York Times and The News.

Articles from author

Paigham-e-Pakistan: Why Daesh loves to hate pledge on religious harmony

As the Pakistan parliament takes on the 2018 document for a possible constitutional framework; the terror group dismisses signatories as ‘false scholars’.

Paigham-e-Pakistan: Why Daesh loves to hate pledge on religious harmony

Paigham-e-Pakistan: Why Daesh loves to hate pledge on religious harmony

How Taliban's sweep in Afghanistan changed Pakistan's security priorities

Islamabad's recent outreach to Baloch separatist groups is part of its policy to subdue the national security threat emanating from another side--the Afghan border.

How Taliban's sweep in Afghanistan changed Pakistan's security priorities

How Taliban's sweep in Afghanistan changed Pakistan's security priorities

Fragmented democracy: Elections in Pakistan-administered Kashmir

Islamabad-based parties made electoral inroads in the region taking advantage of 12 refugee seats and preventing a pro-independence political outfit from taking part in regional polls.

Fragmented democracy: Elections in Pakistan-administered Kashmir

Fragmented democracy: Elections in Pakistan-administered Kashmir

Pakistan considers 'Iran model' to tackle Afghan refugee spillover

Islamabad is mulling over adopting the 'Iran model', which means keeping new waves of Afghan refugees in camps along the border and away from cities and towns.

Pakistan considers 'Iran model' to tackle Afghan refugee spillover

Pakistan considers 'Iran model' to tackle Afghan refugee spillover

Pakistan's Shia mercenaries return from Syria, posing a security threat

Islamabad fears that the Syria-returned Shia fighters may join local insurgencies and pose a new security threat in the country.

Pakistan's Shia mercenaries return from Syria, posing a security threat

Pakistan's Shia mercenaries return from Syria, posing a security threat

Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan: Between the Kashmir conflict and China

How the region’s complicated history is getting in the way of its peoples' long-standing aspiration to merge with Pakistan.

Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan: Between the Kashmir conflict and China

Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan: Between the Kashmir conflict and China

The reunification of the 'Pakistani Taliban' and its regional implications

The estranged Pakistani Taliban leaders shunned their differences in light of Daesh's growing foothold and joint anti-terror operations by the US, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The reunification of the 'Pakistani Taliban' and its regional implications

The reunification of the 'Pakistani Taliban' and its regional implications

Pakistan's trouble with accepting campus politics

Student unions were banned in the country in the 1980s but now Imran Khan's government is at a crossroads between lifting the curbs or facing fresh opposition in the form of campus activism.

Pakistan's trouble with accepting campus politics

Pakistan's trouble with accepting campus politics

Is development boosting a spike in suicides in a remote Pakistani region?

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

Is development boosting a spike in suicides in a remote Pakistani region?

Is development boosting a spike in suicides in a remote Pakistani region?

Independent Kashmir: The thought that unnerves both India and Pakistan

Although Islamabad has always supported Kashmir's UN-sanctioned Right to Self Determination, it has also been wary of Kashmiri nationalism that envisions a state free from both India and Pakistan.

Independent Kashmir: The thought that unnerves both India and Pakistan

Independent Kashmir: The thought that unnerves both India and Pakistan