Plato’s Atlantis, Valmiki’s Ramayana And Modi’s Hindutva Today
The search for paradise on earth has always fired the imagination of scholars and dreamers, whether it is the Englishman ...
Friday, December 2, 2022
Tag: extremism
It’s Time To Rethink The Gap Between Aid And Development
Since 1990s, global poverty has declined and democracy has spread. But these global trends have failed to strengthen fragile states, ...
TTP Extorts 5 Lacs From Businessman In Swat
A Swat-based businessman who has been involved in the hotel and transport business for the last two decades was allegedly ...
A Four-Point Agenda For India-Pakistan Collaboration
With India and Pakistan celebrating the 75th anniversary of their Independence, we are both immensely happy and optimistic, and yet ...
Why Do Hindu Nationalists Want To Be Like Hardline Islamists?
There is an online trend amongst Indians who want to boycott Aamir Khan’s upcoming movie, where he plays the role ...
Death By A Thousand Cuts: The Chilling Politics Of Punjab
What happened in the Punjab Assembly was not unexpected. The viral videos made one’s head hang in shame. Democracy died ...
Can The National Security Policy Resolve All Security Concerns?
Presence of a uniform policy on internal security allows the government to have a pre-emptive approach to resolving national internal ...
Changing The Tune: How Pakistanis Unite Around Music At The Grassroots To Challenge Violent Extremism
For quite some time, I’ve been deeply concerned about what I’d been reading about Pakistan, which described a country very ...
Local Actions, Local Voices: How Pakistanis Are Working To Build New Educational Paradigms At The Grassroots
For quite some time, I’ve been deeply concerned about what I’d been reading about Pakistan, which described a country very ...
‘Jinnah Never Wanted A Religious State’: Minister Fawad Chaudhry Slams ‘Retrogressive Thinking’
Federal Minister for Information Fawad Chaudhry warned on Monday that the region’s growing 'retrogressive' and extremist movements posed a danger ...
Senate Condemns Lynching Of Priyantha Kumara: Delegation To Take Resolution To Sri Lanka
The Senate of Pakistan has passed a resolution unanimously condemning the incident where a Sri Lankan national Priyantha Kumara was ...
Fires Of Fanaticism – And How We Might Put Them Out
Extremism is a state of mind where a person holds extreme and narrow-minded political and religious views of their own ...
Why Is Ghamidi Not Better Received In Pakistan?
About two weeks ago, the U.S. based Ghamidi Center for Islamic Learning released a video that addressed the question of ...
Pakistan’s Extremism Problem: Why Does Imran Khan Always Get It Wrong?
Prime Minister Imran Khan recently stated that force will not eliminate extremism. Instead, he said that unfiltered content on phones ...
Impunity For Religiously-Charged Mobs Is Now An Old Problem For Pakistan
The riled-up mob was chanting. They wanted to avenge themselves on him, they wanted him to come outside. Locked up ...
Is Pakistan a Country of Extremists?
Religious extremism and intolerance has spread widely in our society, especially among the younger generation. In the last two decades, ...
PM Says Use Of Force Cannot Eliminate Extremism, Single National Curriculum Can
Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that using force will not eliminate extremism, rather moral and ethical values would have ...
The Seductive Allure Of Populist Authoritarianism
Populist authoritarianism is not a fad. Its enduring appeal in both established and nascent democracies confirms this. Populist leaders wrapped ...
The Police Force Widely Sees This Deal With TLP As Another Betrayal Of Its Services And Sacrifices
The police is considered a first line of defence in any country. One of its core responsibilities is to maintain ...
The TLP Problem: Depoliticise Religion Instead Of Religionising Politics
The fourth violent street outing of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) has ended — for now. But the sordid episode should have ...
The Horrors Of Partition Live On Through Continued Religious Violence In India and Pakistan
Narendra Modi made his intentions clear by choosing August 14 as Partition Horrors Remembrance Day in India, focusing solely on ...
National Democratic Movement: An Alliance Of The Oppressed
The launch of the National Democratic Movement (NDM) was announced in a press conference in Peshawar on September 1, 2021. ...
THE TRUTH WILL OUT
Sherry Rehman The ‘Star’: The Economist
The Economist noted Pakistan's Minister For Climate Change...
On Rishi Sunak’s Moment And The Mess That Is British Politics
Observing British politics from a distance (and therefore...