Confronting violent extremists
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan announced the long-awaited national security policy yesterday, focusing on the operational aspects of governmental response to the threat of violent extremism. Much of what…
Rationality in Islam
There is a wrong perception in the west that Islam creates hatred, wars, discrimination, violence (especially against women), etc. Yet nothing is further from the truth. This judgement is based…
East and west: a dialogue
BS: As to rules of behaviour, I see western behaviour as being largely of love and kindness toward others, while Islamic behaviour as being cold, arrogant, disrespectful and threatening towards…
Battle of ideas
The ideological battle lines drawn in the aftermath of Pakistan’s creation continue to haunt us even today. One recent example of this came when needless fuss was kicked up over…
Militants` media front
MILITANCY poses a serious threat to the security and stability of Pakistan. While the government and various state institutions are trying to respond in their own way and according to…
Fabricating history
The SIUT’s Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Culture (CBEC) holds interesting forums periodically where renowned scholars are invited to address the members. Since ethics is a wide-ranging subject the thought-provoking…
Far from Iran election, former guerrillas lobby Washington
For decades, an Iranian dissident group has seemed to be on the wrong side of history. Suppressed by both the Shah of Iran and then the ayatollahs who deposed him…
Leadership criteria
It is often stated that the real reason behind the world`sperennial financial, economic and political crises is the lack of ethical leadership. If one ponders over the state of affairs…
Qasim A. Moini
It can be argued that the biggest dilemma confrontingthe Muslim world currently is a moral and ethical one. The root cause of all the major ills that plague Muslims ignorance,…
The ethical framework
Surah Luqman provides an outline of the Islamic ethical framework. Verses 12 to 19 clearly spell out the indicators of a well-organised ethical framework for everyone. God says in Verse…
