Numan Bacha

A school is a place where children are sent to learn. Sometimes it can also be a place of bullying, sexual harassment, verbal abuse and other forms of violence. In this article, I will focus on violence in schools. The oft-repeated jargon for violence in schools and madrassahs is corporal punishment. It is an entrenched […]

Life of man and crime are two things that go parallel every second. Crime will not stop as long as there remains the existence of man on earth. In the early days of man’s life on earth, there were no local laws to have properly defined what a crime was and what wasn’t. Crimes must […]

Today marks the completion of one year of the fall of Kabul to the Afghan Taliban. While the fall of Kabul to the Taliban apparently came to pass on August 15, 2021, it can be well-argued that the pre-fall developments in Kabul had actually paved the way for it to happen. Lately, in an interview […]

While wars have been used by nation-states and other actors as a tool for achieving political goals, it is crystal clear that war has been beneficial to none. Dialogues and negotiations have always been a sacred option to amicably resolve any matter. The United States and her allies invaded Afghanistan and fought for 20 years […]

When a war breaks out, it divides perspectives in international capitals and leads to a clash of interests, even sometimes among friendly states of the world, one way or the other. Each state sees a conflict from a different angle. This is an old yet normal feature of international politics. Whatever way a country views […]

The word Islamophobia is once again in the news around the world. To go into further details as to why and how this fresh debate on Islamophobia has stirred up, first there is a need to understand what Islamophobia is. According to the European Islamophobia Report (EIR), an annual report first presented in 2015, Islamophobia […]

Every year brings new episodes with it, certainly, both good and bad. That people terming every outgoing year good or bad is nothing new. As a matter of fact, no day, month and year are not in itself the way how we term it. It is we who make it either good or otherwise. Now […]

To all and sundry, religion is everything. With thousands of religions around the world, hatred based on religion in human beings with differences in faith is increasing by the day. Intolerance towards others’ beliefs has become a new normal. Where Islamophobia is a global reality, many Muslim-majority countries are facing serious socioreligious issues at home […]

Hardly does a day pass that we do not hear about children being abused. This shall not be out of place to say that crimes against children are seeing new heights with each passing day. This year, Sahil, an NGO that works for children rights in Pakistan, noted that 2,960 cases of child abuse were […]