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Reckoning with Zarb-e-Azb | INTRO

By TQ
Jun 2016

A special series on the military venture that, two years later, still hasn't quite ended.
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Zarb-e-Azb | TIMELINE

By TQ
Jun 2016

A timeline in progress of Operation Zarb-e-Azb
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Zarb-e-Azb | PRIMER

By TQ
Jun 2016

A primer on the operation.
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Purani Jeans | Butcher’s Block

By Hamzah Saif
Feb 2014
Purani Jeans | Butcher’s Block

It is popular among liberal Pakistanis to invoke the more socially liberal Pakistan of the 1950s and 1960s as a country that was on the path to peaceful prosperity. But, these images disassociate culture from politics.
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Another Black Hole: Released Bagram Prisoners Held Incommunicado in Pakistan | JPP’s Blog

By Omran Belhadi
Nov 2013

Two weeks ago the U.S. released 6 Pakistanis from Bagram Prison in Afghanistan.
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Modernity: What we were Promised and What we Got | Daanish Mustafa’s Blog

By Daanish Mustafa
Oct 2013

Despite its promise of freedom, our modern society has dealt women a bad hand.
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Wars and Martyrdom | Daanish Mustafa’s Blog

By Daanish Mustafa
Sep 2013

The whole glorification of shahadat or martyrdom is quite perplexing.
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