دُہرا معیار

The Reappraisal of Our Worldview

As a birth­day present on my 26th, Fazal and Ain, my two good and close New Jer­sey friends, showed me the Indi­an com­e­dy-dra­ma film, PK. Amani, their 5‑year old grand­daugh­ter, accom­pa­nied us as well to the cin­e­ma.

Pakistan’s Responsibility to Protect

The dead­ly assault on cen­tral Imam­bar­gah in Shikarpur on Jan­u­ary 30, alleged­ly by the TTP splin­ter Sun­ni mil­i­tant group Jun­dul­lah, which killed more than 60 Shia Mus­lims and left as many severe­ly injured, is not the first of its kind on the Shia pop­u­la­tion of Pak­istan. It is a con­tin­u­a­tion of hun­dreds or per­haps thou­sands […]

Waging Non-Violent Action in Violent World

Imran Khan We live in an extreme­ly vio­lent world. States and transna­tion­al non-state actors use vio­lence to achieve their polit­i­cal and strate­gic objec­tives, believ­ing that use of vio­lence is the most effec­tive way to do so, notwith­stand­ing that it does not work most of the time. Only the last decade (2001–2011) saw 9/11 ter­ror­ist attacks, […]