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Militarizing Egypt
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Old Men’s Tales
People are usually amazed when they hear that Imran Khan’s third wife Bushra Maneka alias Pinki Pirni speaks about conversations with the walls of her new abode, the Bani Gala residency.
Urdu’s heroes, villains and victims
“Just you watch how conditions are about to change” was the cry of a couple of political party worker friends.
Rethinking Pakistaniat
I have often been asked about when Pakistan would begin on a correction course – a path that all will tread together to construct a future together.
For Pakistanis used to Saudi Arabia, home is not a land any more
The idea of a homeland has consolidated so much in the modern human imagination that people often do not realize how fluid is the concept, and a bit overrated as well.
Home not homeland: The curious case of Mrs. Hazel Deneys Taylor and her farm in Renala Khurd
The shoes, though buried under piles of dust but neatly tucked away in the cupboards, said something about their owner.
Sinners, saints, soldiers of God: Has Sufism failed to counter radicalism?
It was around 2010 that I started my search for Sufism in my part of the world. Initially, the idea was to get away from the excessive heat generated after publication of my second book, Military Inc. But more importantly, working on the military had trained my mind to think about power from a people’s perspective—what it meant for the ordinary folk, how was it applied on them, and the varied relationships that stakeholders carved out to control the public.
Glass Sealing
I am the working woman of Pakistan. I am not my mother or my grandmother who were only allowed to do certain jobs such as producing and rearing me. I am a part of a generation that flies fighter jets and fires assault rifles as elite Special Services Group commandos. We make laws in Parliament, run government from Secretariats, bring you Pakistan from newsrooms.
Silence of the lambs in fox land
Gone are the lazy days of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) when army officers of the rank of colonel and later, brigadier with a small team of men dealt with journalists, academics, researchers and whoever else needed information about the armed forces.
The JuD and LeT Guide on how to make friends and influence people
The time does not seem far off when Mawra Hocane might star in a morality play called ‘Hawwa ki beti’ produced by Jamaat-ud Dawa Television Network. If an Ahle Hadith group like JuD can start a political party, an act that its leadership always opposed, then why not a television channel producing soap operas for an Islamic society?