3KSharesAyesha Siddiqa deconstructs Maulana Tariq Jameel’s fan base and narrates how he makes religion accessible to the middle class and beyond. The cleric’s popularity is linked to the educated class’s struggle to find a kind of Islam that it can live with, she argues. Anyone, who has read Jamaludin Afghani, Hassan al-Banna or Maulana Abul […]
If you were exhausted by hearing retired military officers pontificate about critical matters of foreign relations and national security, just watch retired diplomats speak of matters way above their pay checks. From advising the government on brandishing nuclear weapons for forcing India to revise its policies in Indian-occupied-Kashmir to suggesting that former prime minister Mian […]
196SharesAyesha Siddiqa argues that a cry for accountability, while being important, ultimately ends in a dead-end street. In Pakistan’s case, slogan for accountability comes to nothing because the state has little capacity and breathing space to fight critical mafias or ruling groups as the latter have power to starve the state. On December 27, 2019 […]
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