President Dr Arif Alvi speaks at the seminar on Wednesday. APP
ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi on Wednesday said India, with the help of Israel, was trying to have its hegemony in South Asia.
“Being part of nexus with Israel, India is bringing demographic changes in the Indian illegally occupied Kashmir and procuring weapons with a craving to become a super power,” the president said in his keynote address at a seminar on ‘Understanding Hindutva Mindset and Indian Hegemonic Aspirations’ organised by the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad.
He said by pursuing Hindutva ideology and marginalising the minorities, India was creating an exploitative society and falling into pits of extremism and polarisation.
‘India is falling in pitfalls of extremism, polarisation’
Islamabad
December 17, 2020
Islamabad : The ideology of Hindutva has totally captured the Indian society as it is becoming increasingly exploitative. Today, India is falling in the pitfalls of extremism and polarization.
This was stated by President of Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Dr Arif Alvi while addressing the seminar ‘Understanding Hindutva Mindset and Indian Hegemonic Aspirations’ organised by India Study Centre, Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI) on Wednesday. Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Shibli Faraz joined the discussion as guest of honor.
The seminar comprised of two sessions titled, “Mapping Hindutva Mindset” and “Hindutva: Rise of Saffron Terrorism in South Asia.” The two sessions were chaired by Ambassador Jalil Abbas Jilani and Air Marshal (r) Javaid Ahmed HI(M), VC Air University respectively. Other speakers included Dr. Khurram Iqbal from Nationa
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The lost future generation of Africa
For over more than a decade, people of north-east Nigeria have become conversant with the horrors of Boko Haram
The writer is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad. She is a LUMS and Warwick alumnus
When people usually look at an old picture, they marvel at how time has changed circumstances in a good way or bad. For the people of Nigeria, it has been the latter. A never-ending déjà vu of bad memories that keep compounding like a never-ending abyss.
On November 29, a number which started as 43 decimated farmers rose up to a total of 110 butchered Nigerians some with their throats slit open, others with their heads chopped off. Boko Haram, an offshoot of Daesh, was quick to claim credit for what the UN has described as the most violent attack against civilians in 2020.
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