Adil Najam The vast majority of Pakistanis are Muslims – over 160 million according to some counts – and will celebrate Eid Milad-un-Nabi today to mark the birth of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Coincidently, this year Eid Milad-n-Nabi comes on exactly the same day when the another 3 million Pakistani Christians will be marking Good Friday […]
Raza Rumi Karta hun jama phir jigare lakht lakht ko (I seek to gather the scattered pieces of my heart) Not long ago, say two decades ago, we the Zia’s children yearned for a country that treaded the Malaysian path for prosperity; and somehow were to transform a tolerant, inclusive society. Such were the dizzying […]
Zara K There are two ways to lose oneself: by a walled segregation in the particular or by a dilution in the “universal”. Aimé Cesaire I used to love airports. I loathe them now. It was soothing to watch multifarious faces become faceless and free in airports, to watch different shades of people get absorbed […]
