Mustafa Qadri

The recent upsurge of jihadi violence in Punjab, the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP), the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Balochistan’s provincial capital, Quetta, demonstrates the threat extremist Sunni-Deobandi groups pose to the Pakistani citizen and state.

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The following review of “Responsibility to Protect” by Gareth Evans appears in today’s The Australian newspaper:

Broadening the debate on intervention

The Responsibility to Protect
By Gareth Evans
Brookings, 349pp, $39.95
“NEVER again” was the world’s reaction to the horrors of Hitler’s concentration camps: more than six decades later, those words ring hollow.

In this timely book, Gareth Evans, Australia’s foreign minister in the Hawke and Keating governments, charts international attempts to put an end to mass atrocities once and for all.

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