Najaum-u-Din

2019: Violence and Other Faith-based Incidence

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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 bombing outside the shrine of the one of the country’s most revered Sufi shrines in the city of … Read more

Dead wrong

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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”.[1] The executions had been suspended in December 2008. Within a week, by December 24, the federal government facilitated a ‘national consensus’ on a … Read more

Mainstream media’s response to radical extremism

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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 media’s role instead of talking about the fringe jihadi media. It is obvious that the media cannot remain aloof from … Read more