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Alia Qaim Bukhari

@aliaqaim.bsky.social
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Author: Layered Continuity @Routledgebooks | Political economy, development & negotiated authority | South Asian borderlands | Views my own

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Alia Qaim Bukhari @aliaqaim.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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...
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A Sheep, an FIR and an Unfinished Merger
What the Khasadar protests tells us about policing after the FATA merger
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Alia Qaim Bukhari @aliaqaim.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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...
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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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Alia Qaim Bukhari @aliaqaim.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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.
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Alia Qaim Bukhari @aliaqaim.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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...
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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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Alia Qaim Bukhari @aliaqaim.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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
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