8am: In the past two decades, religious schools in Pakistan have drawn Afghanistan into a deadlock. These schools and their students, through the fatwas they issued and the clerics they nurtured, embarked on a war against the aspirations of the Afghan people and their efforts to build a democratic, humane, and prosperous society. Despite receiving financial, advisory, and arms support from the global community, particularly the United States and its NATO allies, the people of Afghanistan succumbed to what the extremists in Afghanistan received from Pakistani schools and ultimately the generals of that country. This defeat was profoundly humiliating and distressing. Representatives of extremism and backwardness prevailed over representatives of tolerance and development, demeaning them. However, this situation did not remain confined to Afghanistan. Pakistan, which served as a breeding ground for terrorists exporting to Afghanistan, with its schools acting as factories producing terrorists and fundamentalists, is now entangled in similar trouble. This trouble has posed a serious threat to the mighty Pakistani army. Click here to read more (external link).