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Pakistan
Collective efforts needed to eradicate persecution of religious minorities
Broader interaction and coordination among state and various segments of society are needed to reach at a better understanding of different forms of discriminations existing in Pakistan and the required ways to eradicate them.The government…
Security-centric approaches bar effective de-radicalization
States have failed to evolve comprehensive counter-radicalization and de-radicalization responses and strategies because of their largely security-centric approaches and less emphasis on dealing with extremism and radicalism in…
The thirst for knowledge lacks in Pakistani education system
Pakistan’s education system has inadequate capacity and substance to promote the spirit of inquiry, thirst for knowledge and critical thinking among the students. Education provided by different public and private educational institutions…
Religious scholars note that extremists do selective and political use of Islam
The religious radicals and extremists in Pakistan use Islam as a tool to achieve their vested political goals and objectives. To get politico-ideological support of the people for that purpose they have invented a new method of making…
Pakistan can learn from Indonesian experience of reforms in Islamic education
Pakistan’s religious organizations and scholars have a lot to learn from the non-political and public-oriented approach of the Indonesia Islamic organizations to educate people according to peaceful and dynamic principles of Islam. Like…
“Embroiled in its own crises, Pakistan is least concerned about the Arab Spring”
The Arab Spring, a recent wave of civil uprisings and demonstrations in the Arab countries, hasnot received much attention in Pakistan. Pakistani government and people appear least concerned about it seemingly due to internal mess of…
Jamal Benhayoun hits bookstalls with ‘narration, navigation and colonialism’
In this unique script, Prof Jamal, a member of Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies’(PIPS) Advisory Board, has tried to establish a connection between narration and navigation with strong arguments that heroes and authors of the 17th and…
PIPS launches report on its yearlong engagement-for-peace with religious scholars
Scholars, policy advisors and representatives of academic and research institutes acknowledged the role of religious scholars in promoting peace and harmony in society and agreed that they should be engaged in dialogue with other segments…
‘Pakistanis are rhetorically aggressive but moderate in action’
The People in Pakistan have a common tendency to use radical rhetoric when discussing other religions, sects, nations, and people, whereas when it comes down to their practical behavior, the majority of Pakistanis are still …
Ulama decide to counter violent ideologies through political and academic responses
The Islamist organizations construct their arguments around religion and political rhetoric to effectively propagate their violent ideologies. A proper response to such ideologies of the Islamists should therefore emphasize the use of the…