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There has been little done by either the influential pharmaceutical industry or the government to improve the quality of medicines sold in less-regulated markets like India

Reams have been written on the state’s role. The radicalism cultivated during the 1980s; the Afghan jihad; patronage of sectarian groups and madressahs; re-promulgation of the blasphemy law during Zia’s regime; the Federal Shariat Court ordering compulsory execution for blasphemy, which triggered a deluge of allegations. But does the law’s existence sufficiently explain lynching and rioting? Is it a simple linear connection that the law spurs vigilantism? Or does the state’s inaction reflect a deeper problem?

In the face of the staggering xenophobic anti-intellectualism that is relentlessly coursing through the veins of the hinterland following the arrival of Narendra Modi

standard in K-12 government-approved schools. Leaders of the Sunday bombing in Lahore first attended such schools.

Letter by a committed lawyer regarding the illegal practice of handcuffing by Chattisgarh Police . ..