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The TLP’s recent actions demonstrate the growing threat extremist groups pose in Pakistan.

Pakistan is engaging in peace talks with the outlawed militant alliance known as the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in an effort to steer them away from years of anti-state violence.

Successive governments and the ruling elite continue to look the other way.

Apparently, the Pakistan government has accepted the TLP’s demand that it be allowed to operate as a regular political party.

Pakistan’s problem with the TLP must be seen in a more serious light.

This Pakistan government’s lack of direction and inconsistency has weakened democracy that was already very fragile.

The Pakistani State need not retreat — as in the past.

Although freedom is more likely to flourish with multiple parties, the measure of democracy is not the number of parties but the degree of recognition of individual rights.

In order to become a self-reliant state, Pakistan must abandon multiparty democracy for some time and pursue a single-minded agenda to put the nation on track.

Pakistan must get out from the grip of failed politicians and a failed political system.

There are different evaluations of the dominant one-party system in China. CCP leaders see the system as a true and tried platform for China’s success.

Has the World Bank made a positive contribution to the development of poor countries?

The World Bank is helping the South Asian region improve access to quality education, address childhood stunting and malnutrition, strengthen health systems and services.

The World Bank Group works to formulate various policy considerations in developing the projects it finances.

This time around, the Taliban have another chance to give Afghanistan a viable government and to correct their own world image.

Following the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban, Pakistan is placed in a complex situation…

The Taliban’s recent victory and peace overtures spell a better future for the region, provided some nations do not continue to play mischief.

Hibatullah Akhundzada is the third Supreme Leader of the Taliban and the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. A political and religious figure..

There is a need to see the Taliban from another lens than just that of the West.

It is being hoped that the new Taliban-led administration in Afghanistan will not be as oppressive as the previous one because the group has evolved in its thinking.