Across the globe, the religious brand of nationalism is thriving because both religion and nationalism are marketable. Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim religious nationalists share a history and worldview built on myths of the “chosen” people. It is a unitary, territorial, and religious identity that is based on the superiority of religion. Religious nationalists encourage belief in racial superiority. They […]

Fake news on social media can undermine democracy. Social media is widely praised for fostering democratic discourse. Government representatives frequently emphasize the issue of fake news and how crucial it is for Pakistanis to fight the menace of fake news. The U.S. invasion of Iraq is an example of how this kind of story can cause wars between countries. The […]

A recent wave of attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Baluchistan, Islamabad, and other areas of Pakistan has shaken public confidence in the Pakistani leadership. Following a suicide attack by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in Islamabad on December 23, 2022, several countries, including the U.S., Australia, and Saudi Arabia have issued red alerts in view of the attacks, warning their citizens not to […]

To be on the same page with Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is certainly not a compliment. Hence, when I say that by expressing the “hope that the establishment’s [Pakistan army’s] practice to remain apolitical will continue” he has dittoed my apprehensions [expressed in a recent article], I can’t be accused of trying to blow my own trumpet.  Though […]

Iranian and Pakistani foreign ministers reviewed the current situation in Afghanistan in a phone conversation and once again emphasized the need for an inclusive government to be formed in Afghanistan. In a statement issued on Friday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry said Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian had a telephone conversation with his Pakistani counterpart, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. Amir-Abdollahian expressed his regret about […]

Pakistan said Thursday that a military counterterrorism raid in a remote region near Afghanistan’s border had killed at least 11 militants linked to a banned militant organization. The “intelligence-based operation” in the South Waziristan district “successfully foiled a high-profile terrorist activity,” a military statement said.

Afghanistan under the rule of Tehreek Taliban Afghanistan (TTA) has ruled out all the hope and struggles that Pakistan had made to bring a friendly government in Kabul to ensure peace inside the country and in the region as a whole. Afghanistan served as a buffer state in the time of British and Soviet expansionism. After 1947, Pakistan wished to […]

Islamist militant group Tehreek-e-Taliban on Wednesday claimed the killing of a senior official of Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency and another officer, the latest in a resurgence of jihadist violence shaking the country. The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) officers were shot dead outside a hotel in Punjab province on Tuesday, police said. The TTP, an umbrella group of militants that associates itself […]

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP, the Movement of Pakistani Taliban) has released numbers of its attacks against Pakistanis security forces in various regions of Pakistan, especially in the lawless tribal regions along the Pakistan-Afghan border, in November 2022, and of the resulting casualties among Pakistan’s security forces. According to an Urdu-language report posted on December 1, 2022, on the TTP’s official […]

A gunman shot and killed two intelligence officers in an attack outside a roadside restaurant in eastern Pakistan on Tuesday before fleeing, police and security officials said. Murtaza Bhatti, a senior police officer in the Punjab province district of Khanewal, said the attack happened when the two officers were parking their vehicle, local media reported. According to the reports no […]