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Justice and remembrance
In Coke Studio too, violence that has taken over all our lives is made to be justified for better, imaginary tomorrow
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Selective religiosity
After a terrorist attack, debate so quickly changes from the act of violence itself to the ‘victimisation of Muslims’
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PTI rallies — hazardous for women
In ensuring its workers the basic right to human dignity, the PTI has clearly, and frequently, failed
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Bloody Sunday
The list of ‘they’ keeps growing — TTP, Afghan Taliban, ISIS and the like
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No country for Kasur’s children
Where will these children go whose bodies have been touched in ways that will forever haunt them — who may never learn to trust again?
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What is good enough reason for massacre?
Reasoning with killings or ‘unreasoning’ with them, however, is an exercise we should have given up on long ago
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For Tehseen sb and the 26,300 others
According to the UNHCR, Pakistan recorded the highest number of asylum applications last year, nearly 26,300
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A life’s constant fear
With every attack, I fearfully imagine that soon I may be mourning a lost love, searching for them in alien places.
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Our right to mourn
There is not even enough time to think about long-term solutions before narratives are changed and focus is shifted
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Book review: Mirages of the Mind - making light of dark times
Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi’s novel takes a humorous approach to nostalgia and human tragedy without trivialising them.