While much of the reporting on the rise of the Islamists in Pakistan focuses on Pakistan’s tribal areas and the spread of the Taliban into the northwest, the problems within Pakistan run far deeper than that. Over the years, the spread of radicalism has extended far beyond the tribal areas, into the more ‘civilized’ provinces of Sindh and Punjab. Mohammed Hanif, a Pakistani ex-patriot and author, returned to Pakistan and described how the seeds of extremism have been planted in Pakistani society. Hard-line and radical clerics, along with naked opportunists, have taken to the airwaves to evangelize, Hanif says: