Every time a bomb shakes a marketplace. Every time gunfire shatters a schoolyard. The same question haunts the nation: who gave these men the right to kill in the name of God? The answer is clear. Moral and constitutional. No one did. In Islam, as in law, the authority to declare war, to declare jihad, belongs to the state alone. Not to a self-appointed guardian of faith. Not to anyone who claims God whispers in their ears. This isn’t a technical debate. It is the line between order and anarchy. Between faith as mercy and faith as a weapon.

The reasoning is simple. Power only works when it is held by institutions bound by law, ethics, and accountability. Hand it to extremists, to factions hiding behind sermons and slogans, and the result is not courage but chaos. Bloodshed. Streets empty. Lives broken. And the moral fabric of Islam, ripped apart.

Pakistan knows this truth in its........

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