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سلو کا بلاگ | صفحے سے باہر ایک نظم

میرے سامنے والے صفحے پر ایک تصویر قید ہے جس کے اده کھلے ہونٹوں کی ایک باچه پر بوسہ کهلا ہوا ہے اور دوسری گنگناہٹ سے لتهڑی ہوئی ہے


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Making Karachi

Making Karachi

If displacement is a strategy targeting de facto non-citizens, then upper-middle class urban Muslims emerge as the true citizens of Pakistan.
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Beaten But Not Defeated | Feministaniat

By AK
May 2016
Beaten But Not Defeated | Feministaniat

I continue to flinch at loud noises, avoid violent films and substitute “hit” for “beaten” because being hit is not the same as being beaten. I am not beaten. I do not accept defeat.
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Did the Liberal PPP Throw Ahmadis Under the Bus? | Butcher’s Block

By TQ
May 2016

Sherry Rehman's Jang article celebrates Bhutto's anti-Ahmadi laws. She takes almost a month to deny she did it.
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Are we like you? Paris and co-victimhood | Butcher’s Block

Dec 2015

A violence links Euro-America and the Muslim world, Paris and Peshawar. But it not the violence of ‘terrorism'. It is the savagery of the liberal imperial project.
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Successful Forms of Incremental In-situ Upgradation | Invisible Cities

Dec 2015
Successful Forms of Incremental In-situ Upgradation | Invisible Cities

As India’s economy experiences rapid growth in the service, finance and other tertiary sector industries, urban centers are becoming hubs of economic opportunity. This is driving labor migration from rural areas and smaller towns to big cities.
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Spaces of Waste | Invisible Cities

Oct 2015
Low quality unsorted paper in khabardee located next to the jhuggee

Filth, refuse, trash, and waste of all kinds are consistent and unwanted features of the urban landscape in Lahore. Despite its ubiquity, waste material is a thing that must be moved, whether from a household, commercial establishment, mohalla, or even a street, to an elsewhere. It is constantly in motion, being moved from one...
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