Pakistan must delink its proxies from foreign governments and intelligence agencies, especially from the Arab world.

Hassan thinks soldiers dying for Pakistan are not martyrs because he believes state is not fighting a legitimate war.

Our years of manliness haven’t taken us very far.

Militant literature constructs a thesis against non-believers, Jews and Christians.

The misuse of the qisas and diyat laws will sadly produce more Shahrukh Jatois. It’s a tide that must be stemmed.

Nothing was settled in the APC that could not have been decided without these deliberations.

That the PM could not revive the Cabinet Committee for Defence and created the NSC speaks volumes of where power lies.

The journey of cleaning violence from society is steeply uphill. The only option is to free the state of any religion.

Blaming it all on North Waziristan undermines the expansionist roles and rabid ideology of Salafi and Deobandi groups.

NACTA would probably benefit from making a short-term versus a long-term strategy to deal with the problem.