Pakistan’s Akhtar failed because his protest targeted the traditional elite and the corruption of the middle-class.

It is erroneous that Jihadi outfits will calm down, and become part of the society after the Afghan endgame is won.

The war on terror brought internal clashes between jihadi outfits, emanating from the Soviet war, to a boiling point.

Question that liberals fail to ask is how, in absence of legwork, can they change mindset of Hamid's followers?

Democracy means Islamists can do what they want in their country as long as they stay away from the developed world.

The problem is that liberals are ill-equipped to deal with religion in a religious ideological state.

A visit to any elite university shows how increasingly radicalised is Pakistan’s affluent, exposed and educated youth.

For years, banned outfits have been, encouraged or not stopped from taking over Barelvi madrassas.

Khar is quite adept at surviving through different regime types, a quality that will take her a long way.

A law doesn’t acquire any significance unless it is backed with the will of the lawmakers to implement it.