VOL 11 NO 1

by M Saeed Khalid* *The author of this book review is a former Ambassador of Pakistan. December 16, 2015 marked one year of the terrible attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar that shook the Pakistani nation to the core with the monstrous butchering of 122 children in cold blood. Forty-four years earlier, on […]

by Zubair Torwali* *The author is a senior research fellow with CRSS and the Executive Director of Idara Baraye Taleem-o-Taraqi (IBT) Bahrain Swat, KP, Pakistan. Torwali is a Dardic language spoken by a community of about 80,000-100,000 in the idyllic valleys of upper Swat district in north Pakistan. It is one of the Pakistan’s 28

by Toheed Ahmad* *The author is a former Ambassador of Pakistan. Though experts rate Prof Ahmed Ali as the father of Pakistani literature, yet he himself was a tortured soul during the last decades of his life. He never accepted being weeded out of the Pakistan Foreign Service in 1960 as ‘deadwood’. He felt like

by Yasser Latif Hamdani* *The author is a practicing lawyer based in Lahore. He is also author of the book: “Jinnah; Myth and Reality.” His email address is [email protected] Events in India, the Dadri lynching, cow politics and now Shiv Sena’s offer of Indian Rs 100,000 to anyone who slaps Indian Muslim actor Aamir Khan

by Sahar Pirzada* Abstract So why Paris? On the part of Daesh this has been the implementation of a cruel strategy. World reaction to the terror in Paris has planted a false notion into the Muslim psyche that young Muslims do not belong in Europe and the only place they can really feel at home

By Air Commodore (R) Khalid Iqbal* Abstract There have been many major milestones for Afghanistan in 2014, and the country is now on the cusp of what has been termed the ‘Transformation Decade’ spanning from 2015 to 2024. This period of transition brings with it uncertainty about the future, including the nature of international donor

by Khalid Aziz Abstract The provinces are yet some distance away from the Constitutional aspiration to devolve power to the local level; if that is achieved it will greatly strengthen civil society. It remains an ideal that still needs to be pursued. To a large extent the barrier in achieving this goal is the unwillingness

By A. G. Noorani* Article 370 of the Constitution of India is a unique provision. The Constituent Assembly of India which adopted this special provision only put the imprimatur of its formal approval on a solemn agreement, a compact. (Article 370 of the Constitution of India is a unique provision. The Constituent Assembly of India

By Khalid Aziz* (Criterion wishes to thank Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), a German political foundation working in Pakistan and its country Director for allowing the publishing of the following article on “Drivers of Radicalism and Extremism in Pakistan.”) Introduction It may be asked whether there was a need for another paper on the drivers of radicalism and

The war on terror, over the long-haul, needs to be re-framed as a war of ideas and ideology rather than muscle and might. Community engagement by reaching out to youth, and to the true grass-roots by reclaiming the soul of Islam, recognizing its more peaceful symbols, verses and metaphors is our collective challenge and responsibility.