Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Je suis Charlie or not?

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Charlie Hebdo (was) racist, islamophobic, misogynistic, etc, to say the least of their so-called satire, BUT I condemn the killing of thei...
Thursday, July 3, 2014

Highly educated unemployed survey

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If you live in Pakistan, you are sure to have a few well qualified friends, who are unemployed because either they lack the right connectio...
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Interpreter offspring of the brown ‘goras’

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Pakistan is a country for extremism. We welcome all sorts of extremes. Religious, liberal, educated, uneducated, privileged, under-privileg...
Friday, May 2, 2014

Determining the right to be Kashmiri or Baloch

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Spoke to the boisterous Lateef Johar, who said with his mischievous smile that his mother thinks he is ignorant for not drinking juice as p...
Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Takfir, recipe for ‘Halal’ genocide

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We live in a cauldron of sectarian strife. Where Deobandis consider Shias, Ahmedis and Barelvis dispensable, Salafis consider every one d...
Thursday, January 30, 2014

In the name of politics: Dashing the Hague Convention

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The commoners’ idea that politics is a dirty business would not be too far-fetched when talking about Pakistan; instead, it is as ...
Friday, January 24, 2014

Where clerks like generals, intellectuals prefer paternal elite

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Here I go again, talking about the interpreter class that forms the academic elite in this country. The ‘intellectuals’ for whom nearly all...
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