Author name: Sahar Pirzada

by Sahar Pirzada* *The author is an analyst and writer. Abstract (Who is Modi? The architect of communal party exclusion.1 The unapologetic power behind pogrom in Gujrat; the flag-bearer of neo-fascist kinesis on the Hindutva paradigm.  Or is he a charismatic leader of the “Brotherhood in Saffron” 2 that world leaders embrace despite public opinion as the

by Sahar Pirzada* *The author is an editor of the journal and an educationist. The FATF decision to place Pakistan on the grey list has been an unpleasant jolt back to reality. It is not true that Pakistan has done little or nothing in the fight against extremism. The cost of this ideological and armed

by Sahar Pirzada* *The author is an editor of the journal and an educationist. Abstract If society is to avoid all the evils and shortcomings of democracy as outlined by Socrates, Plato, Marx; if a democracy’s mismanagement has led to income disparities, class stratification and conflict; if its shortcomings have resulted in educational deprivation and

by Sahar Pirzada* *The author is an editor and educationist A Moody Past The political tone of North Korea must be understood by looking briefly at its history and relationships with other countries and their interest in the region. Sharing borders with China, Russia and South Korea, it once was a part of both China

by Sahar Pirzada* *The author is an educationist and an editor of the journal. We are all victims of tyranny in some way or another. Victims either of the state’s incompetence, kleptocracy or by the possibility of an unconstitutional extremist surge enabled by interest groups. We are perhaps even victims of the tyranny of demagogues

by Sahar Pirzada* *The author is an educationist and editor of the journal. Abstract We have to understand the story that is being told by the jihadists and readily taken to heart by most. Stories and narratives are not just constructed through words; they are propagated through constructed scenarios.  How are we responding to the jihadist

By: Sahar Pirzada* *The author is an editor of the journal and an educationalist. Abstract With the world focus on the threat of an Islamic Caliphate we are quick to stunt its possibilities and nip to nothing its realm of dormant potential – not the possibility that it could spawn, but the possibilities and potential

by Sahar Pirzada* It is akin to quicksand and all three seem to be struggling in it. The Afghans, the Americans and the Pakistanis. Thrown together, the triumvirate stumbles, gets sucked in and is unable to retract from this pool of angry sludge, violence, confused doctrines and antithetical state policies. The more vigorous the struggle

Sahar Pirzada* Abstract Gravity. The force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth, or toward any other physical body having mass. For most purposes Newton’s laws of gravity apply, with minor modifications to take the general theory of relativity into account. If we take the pull of radical thought as the Centre