Not the sleep, really. The question is why a serving police officer still answers to a committ ee of former Khasadars et al. aliaqaimbukhari.substack.com/p/a-sheep-an...

A Sheep, an FIR and an Unfinished Merger

What the Khasadar protests tells us about policing after the FATA merger

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A longer case study behind my recent The Loop article: The Unsettled Tochi traces the Khaddi-Machi Khel land dispute through colonial records, nikat, jirga decisions and the 2018 merger, and explores layered continuity and layered verification: aliaqaimbukhari.substack.com/p/the-unsett...

The Unsettled Tochi: Land, Memory and a Dispute That Outlived the Maps

During conversations about land in North Waziristan, I have found that asking a simple question often produce a very long answer.

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What interested me here is not only the land dispute itself, but the different kinds of evidence behind it. I think of these as competing archives of legitimacy, linked to layered continuity and layered verification.

The Loop@ecprtheloop.bsky.social · last mo.

⛰️ @aliaqaim.bsky.social argues that #Pakistan's merger of its Federally Administered Tribal Areas didn't replace older land authority. 🗣️ Legal procedures +oral histories have accumulated, leaving the state to decide which evidence should count when competing claims collide. 👉 buff.ly/AO16xfE

My latest piece for LSE blog introduces the idea of layered continuity. If you would like to read how I apply this argument to Pakistan’s FATA merger, I have expanded on it here: open.substack.com/pub/aliaqaim...

Pakistan’s FATA Merger Was the Latest Layer

The 2018 merger transformed Pakistan's constitutional map, but it did not erase the political and economic arrangements that came before it.

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LSE Department of International Development@lseid.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Our alum Alia Qaim Bukhari (@aliaqaim.bsky.social) argues that development interventions rarely replace existing systems of authority and access. Instead, new rules, institutions and reforms are layered onto older arrangements, producing change through accumulation rather than rupture.

I am delighted to share that Layered Continuity, published by @routledgeeditor.bsky.social, is finally in my hands. It is a book about what changes when change doesn’t arrive as a rupture. #NewBook #Pakistan #Borderlands #PoliticalAnthropology #DevelopmentStudies #SouthAsia