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Dated: 00-00-2007 Dated: 24-11-2007
The Neocons on Pakistan: Neat, Simple, and Dangerously Naïve Swat: A Symptom of a Deeper, Older Malady

Najum Mushtaq

Just as a flicker of hope emerged to bring back elected civilian rule to Pakistan, the ideological warriors of neoconservatism are up in arms to douse it...more

Safdar Sial & Aqeel Yusafzai

The idyllic valley of Swat, one of Pakistan’s main tourist attractions, has over the last six months turned into a theatre of insurgency by religious extremists. Led by Maulana Fazlullah, a village cleric and a leader of the ‘banned’ Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM)...more

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Dated: 20-08-2007 Dated: 17-12-2007
Tablighi Jamaat: Peaceful Preachers or Jihad Supporters? The Image of Pakistan: Perceptions, Fallacies & Realities
Najum Mushtaq

On November 10 over a million devout Muslim missionaries from all over the world gathered in Raiwind, in the outskirts of Lahore, Punjab, to attend the 3-day grand annual congregation of the Tablighi Jamaat (TJ...more

The Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS) arranged a dialogue with Mr. Stig Toft Madsen, a famous Danish researcher associated with Nordic Institute of Asian Studies on December 17, 2007 in Islamabad...more

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Dated: 30-12-2007 Dated: 31-12-2007
BB Martyrdom: How PPP Evades Establishment Trap? BB Martyrdom: Why al-Qaeda Denies its Involvement?
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairperson Benazir Bhutto’s martyrdom has entirely changed the political scenario in Pakistan...more

Muhammad Amir Rana

The contradictory statements on brutal assassination of Benazir Bhutto by state officials, and al-Qaeda and its associates leave confusion and suspicions around her martyrdom...more

   
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Dated: 28-12-2007 Dated: 16-01-2008
Benazir’s Death:  Serves Whose Agenda? Sri Lanka: The official end of Peace Ceasefire

Safdar Sial

What is more tragic in reality than the Shakespearean tragedy in fiction can be seen with wide-open eyes and bleeding heart in the ‘political’ history of Pakistan...more

By Ranga Kalansooriya and Namal Perera

The much talked-about ceasefire (CFA) of Sri Lanka officially ends today (January 16) at 7.00pm...more
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