Herald: Highlights of the May 2012 issue
Our case against Manto
Congratulations on your 100th… anniversary. “What is there to celebrate,” you ask. “I am dead. And why are you, the judges of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, my eternal tormentors, celebrating my birthday?” We
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Held to ransom
Throughout Pakistan, kidnappings for ransom are on the rise. But as the number of victims snatched for ransom is increasing, the number of registered cases declines: the victims’ families are more scared than ever before…
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General Justice
Brigadier Ali Khan’s trial that started in Sialkot last month is far from being ordinary — and not just because of the nature of allegations against him. He was arrested nine months ago when he…
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Poetics of storytelling
Manto’s singular courage lies in his daring to use the ordinary language he knew, and which was spoken generally among people, as a vehicle for his writing. Despite this, Ismat Chughtai calls him a coward. Not without reason.
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New perspectives, newer possibilities
Chinese artist Zhou Bin executed a performance that questioned the blanket accusation of ‘terrorist’ faced by Pakistani citizens from the rest of the world.
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Saving Face
When Zakia, one of the focal characters in the film, tries to divorce her husband, a drug addict and alcoholic, he douses her in battery acid outside the courthouse.
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“Kill me, but don’t marry me off”
Gul was regularly beaten, dragged by her brown hair, and strangled at night by her husband and his brothers. At twenty, Gul from Peshawar has been married for two years to Dad Mohammad, a fifty-year old suffering from severe mental illness.
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The subcontinental middle class
I think nobody should deny the Pakistani state the right to carry out propaganda against India. However the problem with this kind of propaganda is that at the end of the day, we are the only victims of this propaganda.
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Beyond ‘hearing’ range
If the United States is genuinely interested in advancing an agenda that would improve the appalling human rights situation for a wide swathe of residents of Balochistan or elsewhere, a hearing and a resolution are not the most efficacious ways to proceed.
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The dangerous drift
The most applauded political consensus achieved during a pleasant London summer five years back proved to be a short-lived one, dashing all hopes of a responsible, ethical and clean democratic set-up.
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Live blog with Saleem Safi
Saleem Safi, a television anchor and a specialist in issues concerning Afghanistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Pakistan’s tribal areas, conducts a discussion about clashes in North Waziristan
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Live blog with Brigadier Saad Muhammad
Security analyst Saad Muhammad, who recently retired as a Brigadier from the Pakistan Army, conducts a discussion about clashes in North Waziristan
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Live blog on clashes in North Waziristan
North Waziristan has always been in the media limelight as a safe haven for tribal and Afghan militants but the region recently created increasingly worrying news when Pakistani security personnel came under a series of deadly attacks there. On May …
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