There was no religious component to the violence. All the violence was influenced by small groups of boys who were not moved by the blasphemy issue.

Violence against women is a universal problem. Many governments have taken serious steps to deal with it. Pakistan hasn't.

Our view is that if surveillance has happened, it is undemocratic. This is a violation of human rights.

This is very frivolous way of looking at rape cases in the country.

only instigated state violence on otherwise peaceful religious marches and political rallies.

There is a basic terrorist germ in fundamentalism – a germ that is purely genocidal. This germ drives the psyche of mentally unstable individuals in the path of chaos, which actually is presented to them by the fundamentalists as the path of God.