Essays

اسلام آباد سے سفاکانہ بیدخلی کی روداد

Jun 2016

جیل سے رہائی کے بعد یہ منظر میرے لئے نا قابل یقین تھا کہ تمام آبادی اب بس ایک ملبے کا ڈھیر بن کر رہ گئی تھی ۔شمارہ ١٠


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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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Badrunissa: Okara’s ‘Terrorist’ Peasant

May 2016
Badrunissa: Okara’s ‘Terrorist’ Peasant

In central Punjab's Okara, hundreds of peasants are being charged under Pakistan's draconian anti-terror laws.
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Reclaiming Pakistaniat

Mar 2016

We need a critical Pakistan studies that challenges reductive analyses informed by global security frameworks, and the state’s uses and abuses of knowledge. Issue 10
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A Visit to the Fakir Khana

Feb 2016

Visiting one of the world's oldest private museums in Lahore, a writer re-discovers her home. Issue 10
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The Hamlets Hum in Punjabi

Feb 2016

Some questions the Punjabi movement in Pakistan poses for the Left today. Issue 10
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The Lives of Amir Hamza Shinwari

An exploration of the Pashto poetry of Amir Hamza Shinwari. A poet who lived a borderland life, or rather, a life into which borders grew. Issue 10
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