Muslims In Modernity: A Look At Some Hard Facts
Where do Muslims place themselves in the modern world? Looking at the general state of Muslims in the modern era, ...
Saturday, March 25, 2023
Tag: jihad
Pakistan’s Experience With Strategic Depth Has A Disastrous History
The electoral victory of the PTI in 2018 was welcomed by many Pakistanis and it was seen as an end ...
TTP Militants Behead FC Soldier And Hang His Head In Buchki Market
The TTP massacred 140 innocent children at Army Public School Peshawar (APS) on December 16, 2014. The Ulema did not ...
Loving Dil Dil Pakistan: An Indian Commentary On The Direction Of Pakistani Culture
I bought cheap tickets at the Lords for the final of the 2009 T20 World Cup, hoping to see India ...
Reflections On A Journey Through Pakistan’s Northern Areas
This is the seventh and last part of my travelogue to Naran, Gilgit and Naltar valleys. It consists of impressions ...
Post Ayman Al Zawahiri: Will The Taliban Learn Lessons From Its Past?
On August 1st 2022, the Afghan press reproduced a Twitter message of the former director the Afghan security Rahmatullah Nabil, ...
Fantastic Lies: The Battle of Political Narratives In Pakistan
Khanspiracy While commenting on PTI’s stunning victory in the recently concluded Punjab Assembly (PA) by-elections, almost all analysts agree that ...
Across The Partisan Divide, Cronies Of The State Are In Strategic Oblivion
Governing Pakistan was never easy. Now it is just bordering on impossibility. Its domestic political structures—that includes the normative constitutional ...
Imran Khan’s Rhetoric And The Politics Of ‘Jihad’
The political use of religion has proved to be a highly divisive force in our short history of 75 years. ...
Exploring The Landscapes Of the Jihad With Faisal Devji
Landscapes of the Jihad by eminent Oxford University thinker Professor Faisal Devji explores the features that Al-Qaeda and other strands ...
Forecast 2022
There was little to cheer in 2021. Internal politics was riven by acrimony, instability and uncertainty. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) ...
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 ...
US House Democrats Back Anti-Islamophobia Bill After Republican Congresswoman’s Slurs Against Ilhan Omar
The U.S. House of Representatives has voted in favour of a proposal by Democrats for the U.S. State Department office ...
Prisoners Of Jihad: Freed To Serve A Life-Long Sentence
Being imprisoned carries a huge stigma in Pakistan. For people who have spent time in jail, it is difficult to ...
PML-N Leaders Have Field Day As Government Postpones Joint Session Of Parliament For Proposed Electoral Reforms
After a joint session of Parliament to discuss the government’s proposed electoral reforms had to be postponed, opposition figures from ...
THE TRUTH WILL OUT
IMF Links Staff Level Talks With External Financing Assurances
The IMF has linked the long awaited staff-level...
Attorney General Resign | Govt-Judiciary War | Elections In October: PM Tells Alvi | Imran In LHC
Attorney General Resign | Govt-Judiciary War | Elections...