Marium Irshad

If an educated person becomes a terrorist, why do we put the blame on his/her alma mater? Why do we automatically begin to think that colleges or universities are responsible for radicalising the student? The making of a terrorist does not necessarily begin in school or even at the madrassa (seminary) level. There is more […]

Has it surprised anyone that Jundullah, a Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) splinter group, killed 45 people from the Ismaili community in a brutal attack on a commuter bus? Will it surprise anyone if, in the coming months, a similar act is repeated and one of the several splinter groups of the TTP or the TTP itself takes […]

The lynching of two innocent men at Youhanabad has been strongly condemned. We have several examples though where a similar treatment has been meted out to Christians without an outcry proportionate to the one the victims of Youhanabad are getting. For many, this retaliation was imminent. They could see the storm gathering on the horizon, […]

The more the government is trying to put the genie of terrorism back into the bottle, the larger it is getting, becoming intractable. We have been on the militants’ radar for three consecutive weeks now, getting more than 100 people killed so far. It could be the haphazard pick of the militants from their menu […]

Mumtaz Qadri has more defenders than opponents for the blighted act he carried out to prove his religious commitment to Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Did he really pass on any message to the community of Muslims about the love he beholds for the Messenger of Allah? There is, however, misgiving even in the reality of what […]