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[11 Sep 2011 | One Comment | Sabahat Ashraf]
Ten Years After 9/11: What Needs to be Done Now?

For Muslims, it is not only time to control how Islam is viewed but also, and more importantly, how it is practiced in the 21st century.

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Interview: Atiya Khan, documentary filmmaker and designer

Atiya Khan: “I think something happened after 9/11. There was a shift in energy and the collective human consciousness”

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[30 Mar 2010 | One Comment | Farzana Ali]
Behind the Chadar

Aaj TV correspondent Farzana Ali shares stories of covering the conflict in Swat and South Waziristan, occasionally from behind the chadar.

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[11 Feb 2010 | Comments Off | Talib Qizilbash]
Looking Down on Disaster

Recently released images show massive destruction and monstrous, devouring clouds of dust that are normally reserved for Hollywood blockbusters. Of course, the reality of it all is what makes the viewer gasp.

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[18 Nov 2009 | 6 Comments | Zahid Hussain]
General Sympathy: Aiding the Taliban

Several former army soldiers are either fighting in Afghanistan or training Taliban forces and formulating strategies to counter the war on terror.

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[13 Nov 2009 | Comments Off | Erum Haider]
The Suspicion is Mutual

Washington-based Erum Haider looks back at US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Pakistan in analysing the trust deficit between two partners in the war on terror.

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[26 Oct 2009 | 11 Comments | Mohammed Hanif]
The Sheikhs of Araby

Why does Pakistan defer to Saudi Arabia when it is hypocritically puritanical and corrupt?

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[4 Jan 2009 | Comments Off | Mahir Ali]

It’s as if a switch has been pulled in the Muslim psyche. It’s hard to say whether something has been switched on or something else has been switched off. This urge to indiscriminately take the lives of others is, naturally enough, considered unacceptable outside the fold of Islam

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[3 Nov 2006 | Comments Off | Tehmina Ahmed]

“Religion can be abused like any other human activity,” says author Karen Armstrong.

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[11 Sep 2006 | Comments Off | Massoud Ansari]
The Pakistan Connection

Though Pakistani security sources claim that the plan to blow up airliners over the Atlantic was a home-grown British plot, a sms originating from Lahore and ties to the shadowy Al-Jihad group make Pakistan’s involvement indisputable.