The Jhelum Standoff: 4th Assassination Attempt on Engineer Muhammad Ali Mirza Exposes Pakistan’s Sectarian Fault Lines

Prominent scholar Engineer Muhammad Ali Mirza survived a lethal strangulation attempt on February 15, 2026, marking the latest chapter in a violent decade-long struggle between digital scholarship and traditional clergy. In what has become a chillingly familiar routine, the Qur’an-o-Sunnat Research Academy in Jhelum turned from a site of scholarly inquiry into a crime scene … Read more