Shaheen Sardar Ali: Clutching at straws: ANP in the copmany of Sufi Muhammad in Swat: Clutching at straws By Shaheen Sardar AliMonday, 09 Mar, 2009, Dawn THEY say the guns have fallen silent, there is a lull in the frenzied strafing. We hear no more schools will be torched, bombed and looted; the dreaded

Shaheen Sardar Ali: Swat – For Whom Will the Gulai-Nargis Bloom this Spring in the Swat Valley: Rabia at Grand Trunk Road comments: A very sad article by Shaheen Sardari Ali, a Swati, and the first woman cabinet member of NWFP, which raises a lot of unanswered questions about the nature of the militancy in Swat