Farhan Mujahid Chak

Sim­pli­fy­ing the war in Ukraine into a bi­na­ry of ‘good’ ver­sus ‘evil’ will not save us from an­oth­er world war.

By sus­pend­ing the ac­count of Kash­miri ac­tivists and or­gan­i­sa­tions, so­cial net­works are sid­ing with un­de­mo­c­ra­t­ic forces.

Sav­ing the re­gion from de­scend­ing into a to­tal chaos can only come through em­brac­ing a rad­i­cal new think­ing.

In the Arab world, there is a top-down ap­proach that is be­ing used to pum­mel the mass­es, which is un­work­able.

The bor­der­ing re­gion has been de­fined by decades of sub­ju­ga­tion, vi­o­lence, and ter­ri­to­r­i­al con­flict.

The AK par­ty needs to recog­nise where they went wrong, and show oth­ers how to main­tain dig­ni­ty when elec­tions go awry.