Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan

Rather than looking at them only through the narrow lens of terrorism, a more interdisciplinary approach that leads to nuanced policymaking is likely to be more useful.

“There is a huge spectrum of relations between non-state armed groups and governments, ranging from tight alliance to intense warfare to live-and-let-live deals in between.”

Why would foreign investors want to visit Pakistan if they could get lynched on accusations of blasphemy?

The mob killing of a Sri Lankan is the culmination of a fire lit decades ago, when a doctrinaire interpretation of Islam was allowed to thrive in a politically driven move to legitimize religious intolerance.

Its political class has neither the will nor the intent to tackle religious extremism as all have benefited from it.

The Imran Khan government’s secret deal with the banned group will get the latter off the streets but at a price.

Economic turmoil, mass protests and a spat with the military are among a string of crises that the Pakistan government is battling at home.

The banned far-right party has considerable support in politically significant Punjab.

In dealing with the Islamist group, the Imran Khan government has lurched from one extreme to another.

Will the Pakistani government give in to threats from radical Islamists? 

Despite being a frontline counterextremist force, the police in Pakistan suffer from an image problem – and directly bear the brunt of Islamists.