The Truth About Pakistan’s Peace Proposition

Pakistan's PM Shehbaz Sharif expressed a desire for peace with India, emphasizing development, education, and health over weapons.

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Media debates sparked over Pakistan's PM Shehbaz Sharif's desire for peace with India, but India should remain cautious.

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Islamist radicalization in Pakistan has made peace challenging, growth of madrassas raises concerns about dangerous religious indoctrination.

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Pakistan's youth population could be a demographic dividend, but radicalization through madrassas can turn it into a disaster.

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Darul Uloom Deoband is HQ for Sunni Deobandi belief founded in 1866, situated in UP, India, linked to extremist organizations.

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Scholars see nationalism as core to religious terrorism. Fear tactics around afterlife attract recruits, and leaders promote "jihad."

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Masood Azhar promotes "jihad" in marriage, childbirth, and finances to end American and Indian cruelty, IS recruits similarly.

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Initial religious terrorism was faced by the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, not Afghanistan as commonly perceived by historians.

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