Behroz Khan The women in Pakistan’s remote Dir town of Pakhtunkhwa province are standing up to what their men did to them in a recent election for the provincial legislative body. The machos there, left and right, barred around 47,000 women from casting votes in the election following their tribal instincts. And the beneficiary is, […]
Reclaiming Pakistan from religious radicals
Posted May 10th, 2015 at 6:46 pm (UTC+0)
Pakistani Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah By Iftikhar Hussain Pakistan, an ideological state, overrun by religious radicals, have turned the society into a one-way alley closed to any non-Islamic argument or interpretations. “To eradicate the ‘ideology’, you have to fight the core”, says Mohammad Jibran Nasir, a Pakistani peace activist who is single-handedly spearheading a campaign […]
Is Qatar Peace Process On Again?
Posted May 4th, 2015 at 7:41 pm (UTC+0)
By Behroz Khan Notwithstanding its official status, the peace negotiations between the Afghan Government and Taliban officials brought some seemingly positive indications to the fore which suggest that today’s Taliban are not as inflexible as of the yesteryears. The Qatar talks remain inconclusive and vague but the two-day deliberations paint a comparatively new face of […]
