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The forgotten future: Sir Syed and the birth of Muslim nationalism in South Asia
Pakistan nationalism is the direct outcome of Muslim nationalism, which emerged in India in the 19th century. Its intellectual pioneer was Sir Syed Ahmad Khan. Belonging to a family which had roots in...
View ArticleFor the women we love to hate
The death of Qandeel Baloch has brought with it an outpour of mixed emotions: rage, grief, apologism. So much has already been said about the woman who put a mirror to our hypocrisy; now, her brutal...
View ArticleFrom Pakistan to India — A new lease on life
It was his life’s race against time. Lahori resident Aslam needed an urgent liver transplant for his 18-year-old daughter Saima. He knew he had no choice but to look outside his resources, and get her...
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K2 via Concordia: Trekking through the valley of giants
In July 2016, I embarked on an incredibly memorable, yet challenging, 11-day trek to the base camp of K2 — the highest mountain in Pakistan — with three other Dutch hikers in tow. Arranged by Snowland...
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The elusive history and politics of Pakistan’s truck art
Pakistan’s ‘truck art’ is now quite a well-known ‘genre’ around the world. For long, it has been an homegrown art-form in South Asia, especially in Pakistan, where the whole idea of decorating trucks...
View ArticleI'm the friend Parineeti Chopra allegedly body shamed, and I'm not offended...
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View ArticleWhy Modi's statements should be the least of our worries on Balochistan
For those who believed that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's statement in which he asked Pakistan to “answer to the world for the atrocities committed by it against people in Balochistan” was a...
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The ‘Little Master’ and I
I didn’t really know Hanif Mohammad the cricketer. I hardly saw him play. The first-ever Test match in my life that I actually saw was the last one that he played. His retirement from Test cricket was...
View ArticleLooking for a getaway? Here's how you can get lost in Tbilisi
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No team has ever overcome more to become No. 1 than Pakistan
On March 4, 2009, the morning should have started with Younis Khan starting an innings. A week earlier, he had showed the best of Pakistan with a triple century. But Younis Khan never even made the...
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How I became an Indie game developer
Writing is fun, but writing video games is a new high. Ideas flow at the click of a button, and creativity breeds more creativity. I send a character write-up to an artist, and he/she will then design...
View ArticleStolen Wi-Fi passwords, mohalla news: How Kashmir gets around the internet...
On the evening of August 16, I drove to Lal Chowk, some ten kilometres from home, to print out a ticket for a flight to Delhi the next morning. It was my last option. Mobile internet had been suspended...
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Iqbal's new Muslim man
Allama Iqbal. The Indian National Congress (INC) and the All India Muslim League (AIML) were both greatly weakened by the collapse of the Khilafat Movement and Gandhi’s non-cooperation movement...
View ArticleLahore's iconic mosque stood witness to two historic moments where tolerance...
On the morning of January 5, 2011, as the body of slain Punjab Governor Salman Taseer was placed in the grounds of the palatial Governor’s House in the heart of Lahore, there was much confusion over...
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France can overturn its burkini ban, but not the damage it has done
The expectation to be modest is everywhere in Karachi, where I spent the first 18 years of my life before leaving to begin university in America. I never wore shorts — even when summer temperatures...
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The roots of religious radicalism
Illustration by Abro In his 2011 book Pakistan in Search of Identity, veteran historian Dr. Mubarak Ali wrote that the roots of Muslim religious radicalism in South Asia can be found in what came to...
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The rise and fall of Pakistan cricket's young mavericks
“Four bowlers are too few on a pitch like this, how many overs will a fast bowler bowl in a day? This is why England scored a lot of runs in the last session today,” said Sultan, a 20-year-old...
View ArticleThe myth of 'martyrdom': How our state glorifies death
Say Balochistan and the first thing that comes to the mind of an average middle-class Pakistani — who reads newspapers and watches news channels — is natural resources. Talk about KP and Fata, and it...
View ArticleWhy I believe Pakistanis are the most gracious people in the world
My mother was forced to leave behind the city of her birth, Rawalpindi, when she was just 18 because of the tumultuous ruptures of Partition. She had never returned. When she was to turn 75, I thought...
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24 years and no Olympic medal for Pakistan — does anyone care?
Pakistan did not win any medals at the Olympic Games held in Rio this year. They just had seven athletes, thanks to the continental quota scheme and wildcard entries given by the International Olympics...
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