Courtesy to "Daily Times"

On the whole, Singapore’s approach to prevent radicalisation of society is to actively engage with the religious communities, maintain close link with their organisations and allow unrestricted religious freedom to them, yet put limits to such freedom when national interest is adversely affected

In this essay I would like to share with the readers the very positive views on the Singapore model of religious pluralism that I formed during my recently complet...

Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Islam and non-violence 

Ishtiaq Ahmed

Courtesy to “Daily Times”

Abdul Ghaffar Khan was a man of peace. He approached Islam in the hope of finding a complementary message to Gandhi’s interpretation of Hinduism as Ram Raj and ahimsa (non-violence) and he found it

A question that keeps popping up in
discussions on violence, terrorism and the Taliban is the following: is the use of force and violence intrinsic to Pakhtun culture? Superficially it seems that it must be s...