The Perils of Pakistan
Pakistan may be the most important country Americans don't know is important. What happens in Islamabad profound affects the War on Terror, nuclear proliferation and the prospect of nuclear war.
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Pakistan may be the most important country Americans don't know is important. What happens in Islamabad profound affects the War on Terror, nuclear proliferation and the prospect of nuclear war.
Professor Ishtiaq Ahmed discusses why there is reason to debunk the idea that Jinnah wanted a secular Pakistan.
Pakistan’s Secularism Question File Photo. Rizwan Tabassum—AFP Enlightenment and reasoning can help overcome the country’s pessimism, and marginalize the forces of backwardness, radicalization, extremism and terrorism People in Pakistan largely stopped thinking of secularism—as well as pluralism and liberalism—a long time ago, tolerating if not embracing the state’s status as an Islamic Republic. However, there remain voices who seek to consider it afresh, such as one highly respected teacher of Karachi who has the intellectual honesty to examine it from a local perspective. In ...