Author: Layered Continuity @Routledgebooks | Political economy, development & negotiated authority | South Asian borderlands | Views my ownhttps://bsky.app/profile/aliaqaim.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/aliaqaim.bsky.social/post/3mvanu7tuoc2mNot the sleep, really. The question is why a serving police officer still answers to a committ ee of former Khasadars et al. https://aliaqaimbukhari.substack.com/p/a-sheep-an-fir-and-an-unfinished?r=8qnh0z&utm_medium=ios11 Sep 2026 13:20 +0000at://did:plc:e7c3oh2fc6fb2burl4imi42x/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvanu7tuoc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/aliaqaim.bsky.social/post/3muciafmdsc2fA 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: https://aliaqaimbukhari.substack.com/p/the-unsettled-tochi-land-memory-and?r=8qnh0z&utm_medium=ios30 Aug 2026 13:20 +0000at://did:plc:e7c3oh2fc6fb2burl4imi42x/app.bsky.feed.post/3muciafmdsc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/aliaqaim.bsky.social/post/3mu2vfbp5z222What 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. [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Aug 2026 12:54 +0000at://did:plc:e7c3oh2fc6fb2burl4imi42x/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu2vfbp5z222https://bsky.app/profile/aliaqaim.bsky.social/post/3mrfhpetqbc2xMy 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: https://open.substack.com/pub/aliaqaimbukhari/p/pakistans-fata-merger-was-the-latest?r=8qnh0z&utm_medium=ios [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Jul 2026 13:33 +0000at://did:plc:e7c3oh2fc6fb2burl4imi42x/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrfhpetqbc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/aliaqaim.bsky.social/post/3mqty6mazy22rI 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 #SouthAsia17 Jul 2026 14:40 +0000at://did:plc:e7c3oh2fc6fb2burl4imi42x/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqty6mazy22r