Gauher Aftab is a Pakistani comic artist and his latest three-part work ‘The Guardian’ deals with one of the major issues of our time, extremism.

The book follows two idealistic young men who join an extremist group because of its charitable work among the poor.

Both men then find themselves in a militant camp, one takes on board the violent message, the other rejects it and leaves.

Coming this June – A Graphic Novel Series by CfxComics, written by Amjad Islam Amjad & Gauher Aftab – arooj_aftab pic.twitter.com/BnwPlRMAv2— Hammad Anwar (@manihammad) May 16, 2015

Aftab is creating from experience having been encouraged to join an extremist group in the 1990s:“If we don’t act as a society or as people to counter this, then this is something that’s going to get out of hand very quickly and that’s why this is something that’s very close to our hearts. Sooner or later we’ll be discriminating against each other on the basis of the length of our beards or the kind of jeans that we wea