Jahan Zeb featured in The Record

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Jahan Zeb
Master of Peace and Conflict Studies alumni and Global Peace Centre Canada founding director, Jahan Zeb was recently published in The Record. After a trip to Pakistan along with a team of Canadian professors from the University of Waterloo and Wilfred Laurier University, Jahan reflects on what they learned, and how Canada should respond.

It is heartbreaking that militants have murdered more than 60 children and women, mostly Christians, who were celebrating Easter Sunday in Lahore, Pakistan.

It is a continuation of the ruthless killing of young school children, university students and teachers which recently happened in a public school in Peshawar and the Bacha Khan University. The increasing suicide attacks in Pakistan have compelled people around the world and especially Pakistani diaspora to grieve and reflect.

Pakistan is a peculiar country with more than 100 million children and youth out of 180 million population. A United States Institute of Peace report informs, "the cultural outlooks are differentiated on a multitude of religious, racial, regional, vocational, and socioeconomic lines. During the past decade, violence has become endemic across many parts of Pakistan.

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