Remember that getting rid of the responsibility by saying they do not belong to us is not a solution to save oneself. Would you have accepted a same reaction and logic of terrorism if people of another faith carry on the same thing? Terrorism. Extremism. Fundamentalism. Violence. Killing innocents. What exactly do we talk; or justify about? Is it the ...

“In the context of Pakistan; socialists were offering me that Lahore will be Moscow, Islamabad will be Leningrad and I have to live in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. The Muslim brothers were offering me to accept Lahore as Makka, Islamabad as Madina and I should accept to live in Jizan without identity.” Human beings are constructed of genes; the basic brick is made of proteins. We ...

Hate-speech and war-mongering are instruments of the populists, they are fiercely anti-European and therefore it is time to stop their ascent. Right wing demonstrators protest in Brussels. Credit: Reuters A new spectre is haunting Europe – that of right-wing populism. There is more than an air of panic in the media and political circles about it, especially in Germany ­– ...

On December 24, 2014 an All Parties Conference attended by political parties in the government and opposition as well as leadership of the Army had finally approved a 20 points National Action Plan (NAP) to defeat terrorism and extremism in the country. Coming after the massacre of school children in Peshawar on December 16, 2014 the plan enjoyed full and ...

The death of Taliban leader Akhtar Mansour in a US drone strike on May 21 in a remote part of Balochistan has dramatically underlined the terrorist challenge that Pakistan still faces, and of which Pakistan is still living in denial of, as the official response to the latest drone attack has amply demonstrated. It has been almost an open secret ...

  Editorial: After quelling politically motivated terrorism and organized crime in Karachi, the recent episode of indicting high and middle ranking brass as per the rule of law, General Raheel has once again proved that he has the guts and mettle to call a spade a spade. However, the issues facing him are far more graver than is projected through ...