Tag: Pakistan under Siege

By Vikas Datta, Title: Pakistan under Siege: Extremism, Society, and the State; Author: Madiha Afzal; Publisher: Viking/Penguin Random House India; Pages: 208; Price: Rs 599 It is considered one of the world's most dangerous countries for being a hub of a particularly virulent form of violent religious extremism, whose impact ranges far beyond the neighbourhood - and is also bleeding the nation itself. But this view of Pakistan ignores how it got to this state and how engrained is the problem among its people. In other words, are all ordinary Pakistani extremists? No,...