A frightening video (shot by someone using a mobile phone, who spoke to Dawn news) appeared on YouTube, depicts the flogging of a young teenage woman in Swat. The...
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31 Mar, 2009
Aslam talking at the Station Museum…
31 Mar, 2009
Imran Aslam talking at the Station Museum, at a VBB event, Cultural Narratives. Documentation by Faroukh Virani.
Read more12 Mar, 2009
a difficult life…
12 Mar, 2009
The tow-truck driver strives to help me restart the car. “I don’t want to tow it if I don’t have to,” he tells me. He urges me to push...
Read more06 Mar, 2009
Quirky. But cool…
06 Mar, 2009
Quirky. But cool. That is the only way to describe Callaloo’s conference Callaloo Salutes Texas Writers that took place earlier this week. On Monday, I drive up to College...
Read more05 Mar, 2009
Today's bombing of the Sri Lankan…
05 Mar, 2009
Today’s bombing of the Sri Lankan cricket players has left people both inside and outside Pakistan reeling. In her IPS story, Beena Sarwar says, “…(the) armed attack on the...
Read more01 Mar, 2009
ammi / momma
01 Mar, 2009
minal: ammi, remember when i used to call you momma? me: i’m not a momma kind of woman. minal: yes, you’re not a mom kind of woman either.
Read more18 Feb, 2009
The Pakistani government has reached…
18 Feb, 2009
The Pakistani government has reached a ‘truce’ with the Taliban forces in Swat. Read more in Dawn, The News editorial and the Independent. The situation continues to be dire...
Read more13 Feb, 2009
On January 24, women in Mangalore…
13 Feb, 2009
On January 24, women in Mangalore were attacked by Hindu extremists for drinking at a pub. The protest in response to the violence has been powerful. To read more...
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The news from Swat…
09 Feb, 2009
The news from Swat continues to be dire. Beena’s opinion piece was published today in Dawn and BBC News is publishing a diary by a schoolgirl in Swat. In...
Read more30 Jan, 2009
It's eerie to read Mohammad Hanif's…
30 Jan, 2009
It’s eerie to read Mohammad Hanif’s novel The Case of the Exploding Mangoes in 2009, nearly two decades after that giddy August 1988 evening in Karachi, when we all raced...
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