Fawad Every year, The Economist magazine prints a delightful ‘special holiday double issue†around Christmas. It is filled with unfailingly interesting essays on an amazingly wide array of subjects. This year’s piece de resistance is the essay on South Asian Sufi Islam titled “Of Saints and Sinnersâ€. The essay is a wonderfully reported depiction of […]
S.A.J Shirazi Setting eyes on Maqbool and his mule cart for the first time, one could be forgiven for thinking that he belongs to a working class endeavoring for survival. His shabby dress and toes peeping out of slippers too large for him, do not project an image of a contented and happy man who […]
Owais Mughal It is not the first time that I’ve heard such news in the past few months. Reportedly, on Jan 19, 2009, a tribal council (jirga) near Quetta asked an accused man to walk on burning coal to prove his innocence. The barbarism and insanity of this practice is depicted in the photograph to […]
