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Religious Extremism in Pakistan
Understanding
the roots
Present Scenario
What is to be done?
Understanding the Roots
• Mass
psychology of religious extremism by Haider
Ali Agha, Pravada
•
Pakistan's
"Rent-a-son" agencies, by Hassan Abbas,
Tufts Journal
• Fear
of religious extremism, story of Pakistan
website
•
Pakistan:
Madrassa, Extremism and the Military,
ICG
• Can
Musharraf force change, Institute
of Global Management
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Pakistan's
balance sheet, Al-Ahram
• Extremism
on the rise again, by Dr. Riffat Hassan,
INRFVVP
Present
Scenario
•Pakistan
nukes, Asia Times, Hong Kong, February 05, 2004
From the beginning, Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan has
been involved in every stage of the building of Pakistan's nuclear
bomb.
• In
one Pakistan province, reality tempers ideology, NYT, USA, January
18, 2004
Just before the new year in Peshawar, storekeepers were putting
away large advertising posters displaying women's faces, complying
with the latest initiative of the provincial government, controlled
by a hard-line Islamist coalitionl. While it might suggest
that the Talibanization of Pakistan is under way, many here say
it really amounts to window-dressing.
• Pakistan
the odd one out, Asia Times, September 16, 2003
With Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his Indian counterpart
Atal Bihari Vajpayee agreeing in their condemnation of terrorism,
elements within the Pakistani intelligence and security apparatus
see the two as part of an unholy alliance, and a threat to Pakistani
interests, especially in Indian-held Kashmir.
• Religious
extremism in Pakistan
"growing", BBC
• Extremism
in the Pakistan
society, Irshad Ahmed Haqqani
• Pakistan's
religious schools under fire, CNN
• Defeating
Terrorism: strategic analysis,
• Musharraf:
Can this man change Pakistan?,
Uwe Parpart,
Asia Times
• Caught
in the middle, Time, Photo essay
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Pakistan's
return to US graces, Christian Science Monitor
• Back
to the future, ABCnews.com
• Domestic
agenda dooms Musharraf's terror fight,
Hussain Haqqani, Carnegie Endowment
for International peace
What is to be done?
• Better
education key to fighting extremism, by Nadeem
Yaqub
• With
friends like these: Getting it wrong in Pakistan,
by John Norris, Johns Hopkins Journal of American Politics
• USAID's
role in the war on terror, USAID
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Pakistan's
loyalty may rest on its economy, by James Cox, USA Today
• Pakistan:
A vision for the future, Carnegie Endowment for International peace
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