Tayyab Ali Shah
Tayyab Ali Shah is a free lance political and policy analyst. He is a Pashtun from Pakistan and has Masters degrees in Political Science, Business Administration and Public Policy. He has extensive experience in community development, policy advocacy and political education with both Pakistani and Afghan Pashtuns. Tayyab moderates the Pakhtunkhwa Peace Forum and has written for Pakistan’s Frontier Post and Daily Times.
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Articles by Tayyab Ali Shah
The Death of Waziristan’s Mullah Nazir: An American Victory or a Pakistani Loss?
News of the death of prominent Taliban leader Mullah Nazir in a drone strike hit the headlines in Pakistan earlier this month just as the national focus was on a...
Fresh Violence Threatens to Make Karachi the New Mogadishu
Karachi, Pakistan’s most populous city and its commercial capital, is yet again in the throes of violence. With Karachi generating 68% of the government’s revenue and 25% of the country’s...
Suicide-Bomb Assassination of Prominent Cleric in South Waziristan May Incite Tribal Conflict
While the Pakistani government and army were busy helping millions of Pakistanis reeling under the worst floods in the nation’s history, newspaper headlines flashed on August 24 with news of...
Pakistan’s Bajaur Agency Emerges as New Hub for Islamist Militancy
The Bajaur Tribal Agency in northwest Pakistan continues to be a hotbed of militancy despite being officially declared a “conflict free zone” by the Pakistan Army. Bajaur Agency has been...
Karachi Emerges as Pakistan’s New Tinderbox of Violence and Extremism
Two commanders of the Tehrik-i-Taliban (TTP) were arrested in the Pakistani port of Karachi on June 11, charged with plotting suicide attacks in the city of 18 million people. Only...
The Deobandi Debate Terrorist Tactics in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Muslim clerics following the Deobandi school of Islamic theology (named after the movement’s original seminary in Deoband, India) are now increasingly associated with the Taliban and other allied militant groups...
The Hazara Division of Pakistan–Growing Talibanization amidst Political Instability and Ethnic Tensions
Recently the terrorism-battered northwest frontier of Pakistan was hit by another kind of mayhem when the previously peaceful Hazara Division of the former North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) witnessed bloody clashes...
Taliban Exploit Shi’a-Sunni Divide in Pakistan’s Kurram Tribal Agency
Kurram Tribal Agency in northwest Pakistan continues to be a flashpoint of violence created by the volatile sectarian strife between Shi’a and Sunnis and the gradually strengthening hold of the...