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How India-Pakistan wars tore apart the social fabric of Umerkot

The imposing entrance of the Umerkot Fort. Wars have a way of creating false or incomplete histories. The tales of heroes and victories often obscure the plight of the common person caught in the war...

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What does the recent shooting in Quebec City mean for minorities in Canada?

There is no safe place left anymore.It is hard to imagine a quieter suburb than Sainte Foy and a town quainter than Quebec City. But this façade of calm and peace collapsed Sunday night when at least...

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Why liberal politics is no answer to prevent the disappearances of activists

One of the most common liberal responses to the excesses committed by the powerful in Pakistan is to call for people to ‘speak out’. This familiar refrain, voiced often in the aftermath of the January...

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China, not America, likely behind Hafiz Saeed's house arrest

The biggest question about Hafiz Saeed’s house arrest isn’t why, but why now?After all, we’ve been here before. He was placed under house arrest in December 2008, just days after the Mumbai terror...

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Pakistan: The lesser-known histories of an ancient land

The first people Long before the emergence of the great Indus Valley Civilisation on the banks of River Indus 5,000 years ago, the earliest known people to make present-day Pakistan their home were the...

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Helping people at Chicago airport is the beginning of my fight against...

My father always wanted me to be a lawyer. Like many Muslim parents, he was thinking of a job that was safe, secure, and lacking in ostentation. So I went to law school, passed the Bar Exam in my first...

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Has Lahore forgotten why January 26 was chosen as India's Republic Day?

The Ferozepur road, one of Lahore’s arterial thoroughfares, evokes a lot of nostalgia. Starting from the Walled City, connecting several small ancient hamlets on the way, including Ichra, Mozang, Amar...

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I'll never forget the day Burhan Wani was killed

This blog was originally published on October 29, 2016.The news first broke when I was in the north of Kashmir in Vijbal, a town of less than a hundred households.My cousins had invited me for dinner...

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'Security situation' is the reason Taimur was shot. What is 'security...

In a police state, we all live on a knife’s edge. And the slightest error in judgment on part of a citizen may have lethal consequences. This ever-present fear is inconsistent with our vision of a free...

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Dear Imran, a leader who wants to fix Pakistan would never propose a US visa ban

On January 27, US President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order which barred nationals of seven Muslim-majority countries from traveling to the US for 90 days, as well as indefinitely suspending the...

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As a Jewish person, I won’t stand idly by as Muslims are targeted in North...

My grandfather Morris wasn’t even 14 years old when he had to flee Kozmyn, a small village in Russia, by himself in 1904. Geopolitics had invaded the young boy’s life. The Czar’s soldiers had come to...

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Here is how Pakistanis actually reacted to Trump's Muslim ban

From a Pakistani TV soap character Dear … sob sob … Sartaj Trump …Please …sob sob … sartaj, don’t put a travel ban on us. Please don’t behave like my mother-in-law … sob sob … even though, I think it...

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By grabbing a cobra by its head, one woman changed her Tharparkar tribe forever

From inside a straw hut she had built, Meeran pulled out a small, woven basket and opened the lid covered in a swatch of azure blue fabric. With quick, nimble fingers she nudged the coiled cobra...

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Concerned US and Canadian Muslims weigh in on rising Islamophobia

Last month, North America witnessed instances of blatant Islamophobia and religious and racial hatred. Not long after the new American president Donald Trump announced a visa ban on seven...

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How the Virgin Mary brings together different faiths in Pakistan and India

For many members of threatened minority communities, places of worship offer solace. Last year, more than 70 Christians were killed while celebrating Easter in a park in 2016. The forced conversion of...

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‘At once silent and eloquent’: a glimpse of Pakistani visual poetry

Whose mischief created a world of beseechers? Each petitioner is seen wearing a garment of paperThis line from Ghalib refers to what he claimed to be ancient Persian tradition of petitioners wearing...

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The hidden 'evil' of Valentine’s Day

We have been warned over and over again about terrorists and extremists. These warnings are entirely biased. They only speak of stereotype terrorists and extremists; or those who may actually be, and...

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How shrines helped indigenise Islam and Christianity in South Asia

The blog was originally published on January 9, 2017.At least once a month, I drive down to Lahore from Islamabad using the Motorway. Just before the Jhelum River, as the Salt Range and Potohar Plateau...

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If terrorists burst in, where is the nearest exit I can push my brother towards?

It hurts, deeply. Lahore. Quetta. Mohmand. Peshawar. Sehwan.I wonder if we'll ever live without this sense of fear – the fear that you or your loved one will never return as they step out of the...

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Damadam mast Qalandar is a cry of rebellion against established orders

Sehwan is different. Unlike the more officially-accepted shrines of Pakistan, such as the Data Ganj Bakhsh in Lahore, Bari Imam in Islamabad, and the lustrous tombs of the Suhrawardi sufis in Multan,...

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