The Charter of Peace – Background Pakistan has achieved considerable success in its counter-terrorism endeavors in recent years, leading to an improved overall security environment. However, Pakistan’s counterterrorism campaign, since early 2000s, has been largely kinetic, or muscular, and less soft, or political. Experts agree that Pakistan needs to take a different, multi-dimensional approach to … Read more
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Despite clear direction in National Action Plan to develop a more comprehensive counterterrorism strategy with a mix of hard and soft approaches, Pakistan has mostly relied on kinetic measures against terrorist and extremism. Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS) initiated a project to promote soft approaches for CT and CVE and consulted multiple stakeholders to … Read more
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A study released Wednesday by the Pak Institute for Peace Studies says the public education system in Pakistan is producing a politically-confused generation that lacks basic clarity in their political thinking. While lacking interest in the constitution or their constitutionally-protected fundamental rights, the educated youth show only modest faith in democracy, and many of them … Read more
Faisalabad – PR: The series of countrywide workshops on interfaith harmony in Pakistan concluded Tuesday in Faisalabad. An initiative of the Pak Institute for Peace Studies, the program engaged the youth in discussions on some of the most critical questions that often remain unexplored but affect thinking patterns and behaviors among the Pakistani youth. Over … Read more
Gujrat – PR: Desiring a soft image without addressing the factors that harm the country’s reputation in the first place is self-delusion, speakers at interfaith harmony workshop said. Wajahat Masood, political thinker and author of several books on Pakistani politics, said “the world respects us only as much as we respect our own citizens especially … Read more
Gujranwala – PR: A country’s international image is an extension of its policies. ‘Our negative image and its fallout such as the sinking prestige of the green passport are just rebounds of our country’s own policies and behaviors’, thinker and author Wajahat Masood said while speaking at a national workshop on interfaith harmony in Gujranwala. … Read more
Sense of citizenship takes a plunge when a singular faith becomes state identity: Speakers Lahore – PR: Speakers at the second round of a national workshop on interfaith harmony said the Objectives Resolution compartmentalized citizenship on the basis of faith, putting the majority religion at the center-stage while also relegating other faiths to the … Read more