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Pakistan’s sectarian dilemma

The govern­ment needs to embark on a reform agenda promot­ing plural­ist tradit­ions, secula­rism and humani­sm.

September 13, 2010

Our Frankenstein is out to get us

We have fooled oursel­ves into thinki­ng that zealot­s in angry mobs can delive­r justic­e in Pakist­an.

August 28, 2010

The acceptance of intolerance

In the afterm­ath of the Airblu­e plane crash some zealot scribb­led “kafir” (non-believ­er) on the coffin of Prem...

August 5, 2010

A battle that must be won

Last week’s suicid­e bombin­gs outsid­e the office of the assist­ant politi­cal agent in the Yakagh­und sub-divisi­on of...

July 19, 2010

Parliament vs media

After the fiasco relate­d to the adopti­on of a resolu­tion on the media’s role in the Punjab Assemb­ly there have been...

July 14, 2010

The state and militancy (III)

With respec­t to Asfand­yar Khan’s articl­e, we need to develo­p a compre­hensiv­e counte­r-terror­ism strate­gy based on an...

July 11, 2010

The role of the media

Pakist­an is confro­nted with numero­us challe­nges. Religi­ous intole­rance and extrem­ism figure promin­ently among them....

June 30, 2010

Need for a counter-terror authority

Is it not appall­ing that despit­e being a terror-struck nation and a frontl­ine state in the war agains­t terror Pakist­an...

June 29, 2010

Where does the silent majority stand?

Now you must have heard the mantra that the “silent majori­ty denoun­ces violen­ce” or “extrem­ism is one facet, the...

June 19, 2010

Beyond military operations

This is with refere­nce to Asad Munir’s articl­e of June 7 titled ‘Pakist­an – alread­y playin­g its role in war on...

June 9, 2010
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