Sectarian terrorism in Pakistan: Causes, impact and remedies

Explaining Support for Sectarian Terrorism in Pakistan: Piety, Maslak and Sharia

In the discourse around sectarian violence in Pakistan, two concerns are prominent. The first is the contention that piety, or the intensity of Muslim religious practice, predicts support for sectarian and other forms of Islamist violence. The second is the belief that personal preferences for some forms of sharia also explain such support. As I describe herein, scholars first articulated these...

Terrorism: causes and prevention.

Terrorism Risk and Democratic Preferences in Pakistan

Beyond direct damages, terrorism creates fear and insecurity, potentially reducing support for democratic institutions if these are deemed inadequate to tackle the threat, and increasing support for military governments. To investigate this possibility, we use data from Pakistan, a country that experienced an exponential rise in terrorism since 2001. Exploiting individual level data on democrat...

Unilateral Hearing Loss: Prevalence, Causes, Consequences and Available Remedies

Introduction: The prevalence of unilateral sensory neural hearing loss is 3 to 6 in every 1000 people and this prevalence will be about 3 to 5 percent by including conductive hearing loss. Studies have shown that people with unilateral hearing loss are having problems in speech and language development. Nowadays the available options for treatment and rehabilitation of people with unilateral he...

Abstracts Terrorism in Pakistan: Post 9/11 Study of Roots and Causes

Terrorism in Pakistan: Post 9/11 Study of Roots and Causes Muhammad Ijaz Latif and Rehman Afzal Khan Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan. e-mail: [email protected] and lecturer, Government Degree College for Special Education Bahawalpur, Pakistan respectively. Abstract: One of the most shocking and tragic implication of ...