The book provides a brief overview of the specific role of sectarian terrorism within Muslims in Pakistan. These different sects in Islam emerged after the death of the Prophet (SAW). The basic theme of this book is to explain in terms of various examples that how sectarian differences among Muslims in Pakistan have led to injuring and killing of thousands of citizens whose only crime has been to belong to a member of a rival sect. The Karachi terrorist attack is one such example of sectarian violence where the Sunni extremists attacked the minority Shia sect in Pakistan. The sectarian violence in Pakistan is not purely Sunni versus Shia phenomena. The first sectarian violence which took place in Pakistan in 1953 was on the small Ahmadiyya sect by both Sunni and Shia. The sectarian violence in Pakistan has become complicated after intra-Sunni violence between Deobandi and Barelvi grew.
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Review | The Rise and Fall of The Great Powers by Paul Kennedy
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Review | The Anarchy by William Dalrymple
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Review | 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
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Review | Downfall: Lessons for our Final Century by Ilhan Niaz
Azfar Khan reviews Ilhan Niaz's book "Downfall".
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Review | In the Line of Fire by Pervez Musharraf
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