An elite club of suicide bombers
It is always baffling, isn’t it, to see the yawning difference in our responses in South Asia to a gathering communal threat, for instance, as opposed to the catastrophic prospect…
Suicide bomber vs suicidal state
The reason it is fruitless to allow ideology to be the primary filter through which you see the world is simple. Ideology is complicated. It obfuscates the obvious, and invests…
Female suicide bombers
BAGHDAD: A 15-year-old girl walks up to an Iraqi police checkpoint on her way to the crowded central market in Baquba, a town some 40 miles north of Baghdad. A…
Profiling the suicide bomber
THE continuing search for motives behind suicide terrorism has revolved around synchronised efforts to find definitions which contextualise suicide terrorism. Commonly cited traditional studies of terrorism tend to treat suicide…
And now, women suicide bombers
A new wave of attacks by militants in the Mohmand and Bajaur tribal regions, including one apparently carried out by Pakistan’s first female suicide bomber, showed that the threat posed…
Making of suicide bombers
There is general consensus about how suicide bombers are brainwashed in religious seminaries. They attack groups belonging to the opposite religious sects and supporters of American interests. But what about…
Making of suicide bombers
There is general consensus about how suicide bombers are brainwashed in religious seminaries. They attack groups belonging to the opposite religious sects and supporters of American interests. But what about…
A case of suicide
According to news accounts scores of young men and boys – some no older than seven or eight years old – have been taken into custody in Swat from militant…
Letters and leadership
Among the many new academies, institutions and organisations that Z A Bhutto established within just five years, from 1972 to 1977, the Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) stands out as…
Trump’s controlled chaos
HOW little it takes to please or render two insecure, nuclear-armed South Asian neighbours was evident this week when, in his State of the Union address, US President Donald Trump thanked the…
