Liberalism

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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Badmaash Elite

Aug 2015

اردو | My student was killed in a fight with some boys from the school where I teach. Endemic violence is a sign that our young are internalizing the ideological violence of the upper classes. Issue 9
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Facebook Domestication

Jul 2015

In Pakistan, Facebook is used to reproduce family practices that keep women from public spaces–both of the physical and digital kind.
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Hegemony in Punjab | Invisible Cities

Jan 2015

A consumerist fantasy keeps Charar Pind's property-less classes aligned with the interests of Lahore's elite.
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The Allure of Al-Huda: Reconciling Liberalism and Literalist Islam

Sep 2014

اردو | Liberalism lies at the heart of the practices of Islamic piety by the Al-Huda organization. That affects how certain Islamic practices are understood — and denounced.
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Neoliberalism against Privatization

Sep 2014

اردو | The Supreme Court’s decision to void the privatization of the Pakistan Steel Mills retained an unsaid pact with capitalist interests even as it seemed to subvert them.
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…of broken lives and an endless wait

Sep 2014

Justice Project | Blog | The repatriation of 10 Pakistanis from Bagram this year comes as a promising development.
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