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Witch hunts, state silence
PAKISTAN is passing through a defining moment in its history. While the power elites may claim credit for shaping this turning point, it is the weight of historical legacies and the churn of global and regional geopolitics that are more decisive. These are testing times, not just for the state, but for the very mindset that governs decision-making. The choices made now will determine not only the future of those in power but also the trajectory …
In September 1692, when 120 people were held in judicial custody accused of witchcraft in the village of Salem, Massachusetts, United States, even some judges began to have good reasons to clarify before a terrified population of only 90 families who “were in the business of exterminating witches, not creating martyrs,” as Stacy Schiff (Massachusetts, 1961) writes in his research The Witches. Suspected, treason and hysteria in Salem, 1692. At th…
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