Tag: Extremism

Religiosity has begun to define the Pakistani citizenry. Those who wield power see it as a positive trend that can achieve national cohesion. Unfortunately, instead of helping to inculcate better ethics and integrity, this phenomenon is encouraging a tunnel vision.The recent hounding of Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai on social ...

Bharatiya Janata Party leader Tejasvi Surya on Monday launched a diatribe against All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi and accused him of speaking Pakistan founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s language of “rabid Islamism, separatism, and extremism”, reported ANI. At a campaign rally in Telangana for the Greater Hyderabad Municipal ...

Indian police confirmed on Sunday that a top militant commander was killed by security forces in Indian-administered Kashmir. Saifullah Mir was commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen, the oldest and largest militant group operating in the Kashmir region. He was killed in a gun battle, Indian police said. "It is ...

Islamophobic content on Facebook is to blame for a rise in 'extremism and violence' around the world, Pakistan's Prime Minister has said, as he called for it to be banned.In an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg, Imran Khan hit out at 'rampant abuse and vilification' of Muslims online, calling ...

Article content continuedIt is also unclear whether the Sikh diaspora, which Milewski emphasizes will not and should not forget the “vicious pogroms which took thousands of Sikh lives” in India after the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984, will show up to vote, in what numbers, or how they ...

Lieutenant Governor Jammu & Kashmir Manoj Sinha on Friday appealed local militants to shun the path of militancy and extremism and promised that government will take all possible steps to provide them jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities. LG Sinha said that people of Jammu and Kashmir, especially youth, want to ...

Article content continuedAlthough he claims to lead a movement for “human rights,” Pannun has unblushingly sided with China in its border dispute with India and recently wrote to Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, swearing that, “if India ever attacked Pakistan, the Pro-Khalistan Sikhs will extend full support to Pakistan.”The ...

On a cool winter’s day in early 2014, the American academic Nafees Hamid was invited for tea at the second-story at the Barcelona apartment of a young Moroccan man. It started well enough; they sat down at the kitchen table, chatting amiably in French while two acquaintances of the ...