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India-Pakistan
The sustainable approach
2022-05-22
[Dawn] A COMMON perception that holds true within our society is that poverty and lack of education are the major factors contributing to youth being engaged in violent mostly peaceful murderous Moslem activities. Knowing that Shari Baloch belonged to a highly educated, upper middle class, respectable family in Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
was therefore a major ’shock’ to the nation. How could someone so literate, so open-minded, belonging to such a respectable family, be brainwashed to commit such a horrific act?

Unfortunately, this common perception is a flawed one. Over the last 30 years, we have repeatedly witnessed highly educated, middle-class youth being involved in terrorist activities all over the world, including here in Pakistain. Many of the United States 9/11 hijackers had middle-class, educated backgrounds, and in some cases grew up in secular families. Similarly, research points to the fact that youth joining the Islamic State
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