Stories from Ayesha Siddiqa
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Feminism in a Man’s World
Our societies are programmed to give respect of even a qualification much more easily to men than to women
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Visible and invisible
Perhaps it is the state’s time to spill blood to send clear message of zero tolerance to both militancy and radicalism
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Not through Manto’s eyes
The theory of the ‘clash of civilisations’ did not start with Samuel Huntington, but with Hijazi
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The challenge of change
State must find ways to neutralise the militants’ narrative, which finds them support in society
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Shades of grey
Extremist values, historically, are the alternative, not mainstream discourse. People have to be reminded of that
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Return of Nationalism
What has been buried with 141 bodies in Peshawar is also dissent against new national security narrative and the state
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Pakistan’s terror sitcom
We are so divided on defining the problem that we may never get together on creating an alternative narrative