Stable Regime, Historiography and Truth Commissions

A Case Study of Pashtun Tahafuz Movement of Pakistan

Authors

  • Farhat Taj University of Tromsø UiT The Arctic University of Norway

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35994/rhr.v7i1.192

Keywords:

Pashtun tahafuz Movement, PTM, Transitional Justice, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Pakistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Abstract

This article discusses the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement's (PTM) demand for establishing a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to facilitate the right to truth of victims of the war on terror in Pakistan. It highlights the tension among the right to truth, geopolitical considerations, and historiography in pursuit of transitional justice under a stable regime. It argues that Pakistan is not likely to establish a TRC due to its geopolitical considerations vis-a-vis Afghanistan. It, however, also underscores that PTM as a pressure group could contribute greatly to realising several human rights based right claims of the war victims, if it disengages itself from the anti-Pakistan Afghan diaspora.

Author Biography

Farhat Taj, University of Tromsø UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Dr. Farhat Taj, PhD Sociology of Law, is associate professor at the  University of Tromsø, UiT The Arctic University of Norway. She is former assistant professor at the Kohat University of Science and Technology, KUST, Pakistan. Dr. Taj is  former Planning Officer, Education Department, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Government, Pakistan and former Assistant Director Colleges, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Government, Pakistan.

Published

2020-11-01

How to Cite

Taj, F. (2020). Stable Regime, Historiography and Truth Commissions: A Case Study of Pashtun Tahafuz Movement of Pakistan. Review of Human Rights, 7(1), 67-88. https://doi.org/10.35994/rhr.v7i1.192

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 1 (2021): Review of Human Rights

Section

Articles

Copyright (c) 2021 Farhat Taj

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