What the merger gave us — and what it cost
Eight years after the tribal areas were folded into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the constitutional gain is real. The on-the-ground delivery is another story.
Nizam
Salarzai
Journalist, researcher, and advocate from the Pakistan–Afghanistan frontier. Writing on security, militancy, governance, and the responsible deployment of AI.
Recent Writing
Essays, reporting, and dispatches.
Notes from the line, January
Three weeks travelling through Bajaur, Khar to Mamond. Notes on what people are willing to say into a recorder, and what they are not.
Responsible AI is a Global South question now
If the next wave of frontier models is trained, fine-tuned, and red-teamed without us, we will inherit their assumptions.