The Pakistani Spectator

No surprises then that the Pakistan Army has consistently gone against the Quaid’s vision of Pakistan in its lust for power and in pursuit of this power the Pakistani Army has created distortions about our history and religion as seen in the sort of textbooks available in Pakistani schools. There is no justification whatsoever for Army intervention in politics. The Army should not make policy fullstop.

The terms ‘’post-Islamism’’ and ‘’post-secularism’’ are not my own constructs, rather Professor Bayat coined ‘’post-Islamism’’ and Jurgen Habermas coined ‘’post-secularism’’, but the interesting thing is that both constructs point towards a new means of democratic politics that has a liberalizing effect.
For years, the political orthodoxy has suggested that all religious political actors are necessarily autocratic [...]