Najaum-u-Din

2019: Violence and Other Faith-based Incidence

Najaum-u-Din Jun 16, 2020

Besides religious and sectarian minorities, places of religious significance have also been regularly targeted in militant extremist across the country over the last 15 years. In May 2019, at least eight people were killed in a suicide…

Pakistan

Dead wrong

Najaum-u-Din Dec 7, 2015

Immediately after the December 16 Taliban attack on Army Public School (APS) in Peshawar last year, Pakistan scrapped a six-year informal moratorium on executions, and approved “execution of death penalty in terrorism-related cases”. The…

Dead wrong

Najaum-u-Din Dec 2, 2015

Media for peace

Mainstream media’s response to radical extremism

Najaum-u-Din Jan 22, 2010

There seems to be broad agreement among analysts that Pakistan has never witnessed worse manifestations of violence fuelled by radical extremism than it does today. Against this backdrop I want to focus on the mainstream…

Pakistan

Mainstream Media’s Response to Radical Extremism

Najaum-u-Din Jan 1, 2010