Quarterly Newsletter Oct – Dec 2024
- Punjab Policy brief-1 Securing Punjab’s social & cultural diversity
- Punjab Policy brief-2 Social harmony and equal citizenship
- Punjab Policy brief-3 Safe charity: giving to the right hands
- Punjab Policy brief-4 Promoting the culture of dialogue in Punjab
- Punjab Policy brief-5 Intellectual and scholarly trends on countering violent extremism in Punjab
- Punjab Policy brief-6 Role of Punjab’s literary and cultural institutions in countering extremism
- National Policy brief-1 Religious Thought and Conflict
- National Policy brief-2 Reintegration of Militants
- National Policy brief-3 National Dialogue and Social Contract
- National Policy brief-4 Implementing National Action Plan
- National Policy brief-5 Constitution, Citizenship and Governance
- National Policy brief-6 Youth Engagement Program
- National Policy brief-7 Media Engagement Programs
- National Policy brief-8 Cultural Diversity and Pluralism
- National Policy brief-9 Education reforms
- National Policy brief-10 Internal security and challenges
- PIPS Conference Brief
- POLICY BRIEF APRIL-JUNE, 2022
- POLICY BRIEF 2
- POLICY BRIEF October December, 2022
- POLICY BRIEF January-March, 2023
- Policy Brief April- May 2023
- POLICY BRIEF Jun- Aug 2023
- Quarterly Newsletter Oct - Dec 2024
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Pakistan has a history of faith-based violence. The Constitution of Pakistan guarantees equal rights to all citizens including the right to protection of life, fair trial, freedom of expression, and the right to profess, practice and propagate the religion. However, these constitutional safeguards neither properly worked nor could ever be translated into actual liberties of thought and religious belief.
In practice, not only minorities including Christians, Hindus, and Ahmadis face persecution based on their religious thoughts but also people of the Muslim majority community become a victim to faith-based extremism. And this is not a new phenomenon. It has been observed for the past many decades.
The purpose of this policy brief is to highlight growing trends of extremism among personnel of law enforcement agencies while dealing with cases of blasphemy and to provide some recommendations on it.