Read More WWorld PAKISTAN STUMBLING FROM SECTARIANISM TO SHIA GENOCIDEbyAsif ZaidiJanuary 23, 2013 PROLOGUE: This article attempts to examine the rise of sectarian conflict in Pakistan and how it has assumed…
Read More WWorld RELIGIOSITY IN PAKISTAN – (A Lament !)byAsif ZaidiMarch 6, 2011 (For the purpose of this article ‘Religiosity’ means ‘exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal’) I am often…
Read More WWorld PAKISTAN FROM A LAND OF RELIGIOUS HARMONY TO RELIGIOUS BIGOTRYbyAsif ZaidiMarch 6, 2011 I am often astounded by the amount of religiosity on display in the present day Pakistan. The realization…
Read More WWorld MUSLIMS AND THE WESTbyAsif ZaidiOctober 9, 2010 The West and Islam have had an uneasy relationship for a very long time, which dates from even…
Read More WWorld POLITICAL ISLAM: AN IDEOLOGY MIRED IN THE PASTbyAsif ZaidiSeptember 19, 2010 While political movements that function in the name of religion have been a world phenomenon for centuries, in…
Read More WWorld IS SIALKOT INCIDENT SYMBOLIC OF WHAT WE HAVE BECOMEbyAsif ZaidiAugust 25, 2010 To me, yes. Initially I felt like writing a detailed article on this on my blog but then…
Read More WWorld Pakistan: Massive destruction – little sympathybyAsif ZaidiAugust 22, 2010 The present floods in Pakistan are turning into a tragedy of a massive scale. We are not yet…
Read More WWorld MUSLIM SOCIETY AND WOMENbyAsif ZaidiJuly 22, 2010 FOREWORD: As we address this subject, a thinking mind has to acknowledge that there is no archetypical Muslim…
Read More WWorld THE EMERGING ORDERbyAsif ZaidiJune 15, 2010 PREAMBLE: When Antoine van Agtmael coined the term “emerging markets” in 1981 as an upbeat alternative to “the…
Read More WWorld A Perspective on Muslims’ Current SituationbyAsif ZaidiMay 21, 2010 Muslim ideologues, especially during the past few decades, have espoused a passion to make two assertions. One, religiously…