An Ill-Fated Merger: The Pitfalls Of Sacralising The Secular In India And Pakistan
Sacralism is the merger of Church and State wherein one is called upon to change the other. It is not...
Thursday, July 7, 2022
Gladly Becoming The Other: The Oddities Of Self-Orientalism
In his hugely influential book Orientalism (1978), Edward Said — a founder of ‘post-colonial studies’ — demonstrated how the West...
Foucault’s Political Spirituality, Punjab And TLP
Just before the 1946 general elections in ‘British India,’ Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s All India Muslim League (AIML) was poised to...
Maududi’s Leviathan: From A Political Ambition To A Cultural Pursuit
The American historian Richard Wolin in his book The Seduction of Unreason wrote that after being disillusioned by the collapse...
An Era Of Judicial Populism
‘Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion.’ This is a famous quote of the former Chief Justice...
Roots Of Rage: How Barelvi Militancy Became A Mass Political Force
The Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) did not emerge from a vacuum. The roots of the party lie in how Sunni Barelvi...
Who Could Have Foreseen The Disaster That Is Naya Pakistan?
Veteran journalist and TV anchor Saleem Safi recently uploaded two interviews on his YouTube channel. This seems to be part...
Between Allama and Quaid
Nadeem F. Paracha on the constant reshaping of Mr. Jinnah and the matter of ‘Iqbaliyat’ through the decades
Making the Mohajir
Nadeem Farooq Paracha explains how a modern ethnic identity came to be
The fascinating tale of General Rani
Nadeem F. Paracha narrates the story of burqa-clad housewife turned political machinator, Aqleem Akhtar
One with the abyss
Nadeem F. Paracha All those 'think positive' types waiting for some kind of a 'moderate Muslim awakening' in this country are...
A rapid guide to becoming a great TV talk show host in Bakistan …
This is what you need to know: Amreeka: A modern-day Babylon. Run by evil men whose bloodlines are linked to...
The MQM conundrum
Is MQM really the party it is in the imagination of non-Karachiites? Nadeem F. Paracha explores
Tomorrow’s party
It is imperative that a rapidly urbanizing Sindh doesn't go down the Punjab route, writes Nadeem F. Paracha
Convolutions in motion
There is a deeper connection between your iPad and faith than you are aware of, writes Nadeem F. Paracha
Enter Bilawal
A counter-narrative is finally taking shape in Pakistan, writes Nadeem F. Paracha
Spatial anomalies
Why can't we still decide who or what is an extremist, asks Nadeem F. Paracha
Singing in the reign (of terror)
Why do Pakistani musicians have their eyes and ears closed to the scourge of terrorism? Nadeem F. Paracha trains his...
Fire from above
In this week's column, Nadeem Farooq Paracha reveals that an obscure army man, not Maulana Maudoodi, was the architect of...
Tomorrow’s Jinnah
Nadeem F. Paracha comes up with an answer to the eternal Pakistani existential query
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States and Markets | The Political Economy Of Punjab Govt’s Free Electricity Initiative
Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shahbaz recently announced the...