Raashid Wali Janjua

Jan 12, 2025 | thefridaytimes.com | Raashid Wali Janjua

It is an onerous responsibility to groom and educate the digital natives of Generation Z and Generation Alpha brought up in a digital age of the post-truth world known for ideological iconoclasm and AI-driven social media narratives. Our young generation following the rest of the world’s grooming models has been overprotected in the real world, and under-protected in the virtual world of social media platforms, which at the same time inform as well as confuse the young and impressionable minds.

Sep 5, 2024 | thenews.com.pk | Raashid Wali Janjua

The 1965 war was a product of the unresolved Kashmir conflict and unrealistically ambitious assumptions such as ruling out the possibility of India retaliating when confronted with defeat in the disputed Kashmir territory.

Jul 10, 2024 | thenews.com.pk | Raashid Wali Janjua

American journalist Fareed Zakaria, in his book ‘Age of Revolutions’, writes that the speed of technological and economic changes is impacting politics in a manner that is causing anxieties and fears among humans, forcing them to seek refuge in old certitudes and proximate identities. Grand narratives like religious ideologies and fascism, which were eclipsed by postmodernism, are now staging a return with vengeance.

Jun 14, 2024 | thenews.com.pk | Raashid Wali Janjua

Modi had been flying too close to the sun. While now his rise has come to a halt, he will continue to rule the country for another five years – albeit on less steam. Modi had planned to amend the Indian constitution to establish a Hindu ‘rashtra’ (nation) in case he won over 400 seats. Within this context, Ram Mandir at Ayodhya, inaugurated with much fanfare, was the vanguard of a Hindu state, where Christians, Buddhists, Sikhs, Jews, and Jains could live under strictures as cultural Hindus.

May 4, 2024 | geo.tv | Raashid Wali Janjua

India is going through its 18th Lok Sabha elections and as the Modi government enters the bare-knuckle contest against the 26-party INDIA alliance led by the Congress, the contest is heating up to a feverish pitch. Political pundits in India and the rest of the world have predicted a comfortable win for Narendra Modi. There, however, is a glitch in the Modi juggernaut’s move as this time around the anti-Pakistan and communal bandwagon has not been much successful.