In December 2021, Pakistan’s first-ever National Security Policy (NSP) understandably hit the headlines in India, which was mentioned more than any other nation in it—at least 16 times. The 62-page document prepared after what was described as a seven-year ‘strategic thought’ referred to a policy of peace at home and abroad.
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Minorities Live In Fear As Allegations Of Forced Conversions Rise In Pakistan
The tiny community of Hindus and Christians continues to live in fear as incidents of forced conversions of under-aged girls are on the rise in Pakistan, especially in Sindh. Human rights activists are concerned that forced conversions and marriages take place under threat and violence in Pakistan. In March 2022, 18-year-old Hindu
Pakistan blocks Wikipedia, says it hurt Muslim sentiments
Pakistan's media regulator said Monday it blocked Wikipedia services in the country for hurting Muslim sentiment by not removing purportedly blasphemous content from the site, a move critics say is a blow to digital rights. Under Pakistan's blasphemy laws, anyone found guilty of insulting Islam or its figures can be
Shahbag Square Thunderous Slogan ‘Joy Bangla
On 5 February 2013, suddenly Shahbagh intersection become lively as thousands of angry and frustrated young people thronged the place to demand maximum punishment of war criminals indicted for war crimes and a crime against humanity during the brutal birth of Bangladesh. On the tenth anniversary of Gono Jagaron Moncho, remembered
Is terrorism returning to Pakistan?
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s follies
Pakistan’s prime minister Shehbaz Sharif's missteps, many of which are quite amateurish in nature, have plunged PML-N’s prospects, much like those of Pakistan, into the dark. Pakistan’s strategic planners have been searching for pliant governments for years, if not decades. One such plan was to insert Shehbaz Sharif, the current prime
Suicide bomber kills 34, wounds 150 at mosque in Pakistan
A suicide bomber struck Monday inside a mosque within a police compound in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least 34 people and wounding as many as 150 worshippers, most of them police, officials said. The bombing drew nationwide condemnation from opposition political parties and government officials. Ghulam Ali,
Bigotry against religious, sectarian minorities growing in Pakistan
On January 18, 2023, National Assembly approved amendments to Section 298-A of the Pakistan Penal Code 1860, enhancing the punishment for “defiling” the sacred names of wives, family and companions of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) to 10 years with a million rupees fine. This is the newest slip down the slippery
2023 will be another year of intense instability in Pakistan
Pakistan broke its own standards of political instability in the year 2022 and entered 2023 with heightened polarization, without any foreseeable turn around in sight. Political unrest that started in the wake of the successful VONC against Imran Khan gripped the whole country. In fact, with the dissolution of the
