After the war, The river remembers, Letters from the diaspora
Aisha Khalid
Poetry by Aisha Khalid.
Category: Pakistan
Arranged marriage
Areej Kiani
Gossip spreads in a Pakistani neighbourhood after a couple’s daughter elopes with a man late at night.
The Dawn of Independence (August ‘47)
Faiz Ahmad Faiz
A poem from Faiz Ahmad Faiz
Colonisation and modernisation
Muhammad Nadeem
Hafsa Kanjwal contends that Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed’s state-building practices helped strengthen India’s hold over Kashmir while also enabling modernisation, which paradoxically reinforced a sense of alienation rather than reconciliation.
Multitudes
Aditya Narayan Sharma
Saadat Hasan Manto knew that it was not for him to analyse the multitudes people contain, and that often spill out from us without warning.
Hope
Hina Husain
Not only did the promise of “Naya Pakistan” never materialise, the country is actually much worse off today.
Gilgit-Baltistan
Kit Yeng Chan
Pakistan’s mountainous north