اردو | It was in the early 1990s when, as a teenager, I celebrated the inauguration of the first underpass on Jail Road in Lahore.
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Essays
A Bus Pass for Lahore
‘Where are you from?’ Belonging after Partition
اردو | Where do you come from when your ancestors were forced to leave their homes?
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A Place of One’s Own
اردو | Migrants deployed several tactics—including kicking people out—as they struggled to make a new home after Partition.
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Pakistani Mercenaries Arrive in Bahrain
On Independence Day, Pakistani troops will oil their guns and march out near the Pearl Monument to fire at Bahraini protesters.
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پاکستان کے لوگوں کی تاریحخ کی جانب یاداشت
پاکستان کے لوگوں کی تاریخ جمہوری سیاست میں لبرل دانشوروں کی جانب سے ادا کردہ رکاوٹوں کی وجہ سمجھنے کا تقاضہ کرتی ہے۔
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On Not Speaking of Palestine
English | اردو What shocked me was something I had not anticipated: the latent and sometimes overt hostility to Palestine solidarity and sympathy for Zionist propaganda. In 2009, I moved to Lahore for a year. It was my first visit ever to Pakistan, and to the city where my father was born, and from where my...
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Not Talking About Pakistan
Questions about Pakistan are now a fact of living here, no different from damp weather or calls from salespeople. Some I deflect, and others I frame around my own terms. I drew a secret line around the borders of Pakistan and rarely stepped over it.
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