Aziz Ali Dad Though there was no serious confrontation between different sects in Gilgit-Baltistan during the British period, there were latent sectarian prejudices among the populace. Colonel John Biddulph in his book ‘Tribes of the Hindoo Kush” recorded some practices and attitudes among Sunni and Shia communities that showed increasing dislike for each other among normally moderate people in matters …

By manipulating religion, Pakistan’s ruling elite stifles the freedoms of speech and expression and leave no space for progressive thinking, writes Muzzammil Mukhtar WALTER LIPPMANN was a US theorist of liberal democracy. He supported the use of propaganda, oriented to the existing class system, to control the public mindset. He argued in favour of what he conceptualised as the manufacturing …

“Sectarian thinking is contagious and rapidly spread.” ― Moutasem Algharati   The issue of sectarian violence in Gilgit-Baltistan cannot be analysed through an idealised view that tends to paint the region as an idyllic paradise where no violence ever occurred before the advent of modernity. The reality is that sectarian violence has been a part of the history of Gilgit-Baltistan. Throughout …

By Aziz Ali Dad Followers of Islam are certainly perplexed why their lives are being turned into hell for some self-claimed saviours of Islam to go to heaven. The situation should have triggered some soul searching, but despite the gruesome incidents of murder and mayhem of innocent people in Pakistan, no attempt is made to analyze the subject of reason …