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      • For an effective safeguard against misuse of religion
      • Against contemporary greed
      • Between sausage and doner kebab
      • Anomalies of the present
      • Poet for paperless people
      • Poverty is also a defence issue
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      • Success of understatement
    • 2006
      • A movement called Edward Said
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      • "I do not write cold, detached prose"- interview with Mazhar ul Islam
      • Don’t be dull
      • Neither aboriginal nor postcolonial - An interview with Mohsin Hamid
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    • Creative Writing
      • The Sharpness of Grass Blades
      • The internal maps of the terrorised
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      • Writers and their nights
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      • To Cambodia with apps
      • Museum, Islands and moonless nights
      • Erasing Uncertainties
      • The raconteur will win in the end
      • Man Proposes…
      • Understanding academic problems
      • ISIS: Ideology, Symbolics, and Counter-Narratives by Masood Ashraf Raja - A
      • Permanent Record by Edward Snowden review - a spellbinding thriller
      • Leaving a mark in 2019
    • 2018
      • Uncomfortable stories
      • The reality of Pakistan's image
      • Poems on Lahore and much much more
      • Straitjackets of rationality
      • Cerebral, political, romantic
      • Rurality and development
      • Three provinces, one trip
      • Three provinces, one trip II
      • "Life is amoral and I try to depict it as such"
      • Monitoring the digital age
    • 2017
      • A political art
      • What ties me to Pakistan/70 years of independence
      • “I'd rather have ten voracious readers…''
      • Experimenting with poems
      • Is the age of poetry over?
      • “A society without literature and arts would be a freak society”
      • A caretaker for the invisible
      • The world of academics
    • 2016
      • Why Iqbal cannot compete with Atif Aslam…
      • Conversing with authors
      • Of work and related civilisational nightmares
      • Re-entering the library
      • Wild but not free
      • Following her own path
      • The originality question
    • 2015
      • An unforgettable lesson of history
      • As good as the original
      • Writing against death
      • Not just a novel
      • A sign of things to come
      • Globalising a local experience
      • The citizen and the outsider
      • If free speech were really free
    • 2014
      • The right to kill
      • Controlling interpretations
      • From manuscript to publishing
      • The art of the possible
      • The 50,000-word letter
      • What the media reports or not
      • The useful bodies
      • Voice of the narrator
      • Celebrate Marquez but why
      • Cafe Le Whore: A strange story-world
      • After a century and a half
      • Inkling of immortality
      • Language of literature
    • 2013
      • Autumnal journey to snow 
      • State of indifference
      • Homeless in Copenhagen
      • Politics by literary means
    • 2009
      • The southern-most source of dignity
      • The gender paradox
      • The internal maps of the terrorised
      • "The government should have nothing to do with any sect"
      • Trust deficit
      • Ghosts of Muridke
      • Spokesman of multiculturalism
      • Zen-like calm of Hunza
      • Nothing is sacred in popular humour. Everything goes
      • The art of peeling the eyelids
      • "…the legal mess the government is in"
      • When a drifter meets another drifter
      • Blasted to modernity
      • Voluntarily displaced
      • State of education
      • State of police rule
      • Love is only so called
      • Plotting against poverty
      • The heart of the world is actually a bullet
      • Where water comes together
      • History of disasters
      • A curious development
      • Between spirits and couriers
    • 2008
      • Bush vs. Al-Zaidi
      • 10 arguments against violence conflict
      • Open to contradictions
      • Raw power versus justice
      • Out in the open
      • Promoters of purity
      • Fragility of it all
      • Listen to what they are saying
      • For an effective safeguard against misuse of religion
      • Against contemporary greed
      • Between sausage and doner kebab
      • Anomalies of the present
      • Poet for paperless people
      • Poverty is also a defence issue
      • By any means necessary Shahenshah's survival story in Athens
      • Waiting among the dead
      • If beard was the only thing to go by
      • This Monday morning stuff
      • Your sentence
      • Even philosophers need to eat
      • Utopia for me Wherever you are, you are legal
      • 'Balochis want to reform the existing order'
      • Caste Schmaste
      • ‘We’re going to wait till May 12’
      • Simplifying the non-West
    • 2007
      • Success of understatement
    • 2006
      • A movement called Edward Said
      • The recent controversy about creativity in Urdu is already archaic
      • "I do not write cold, detached prose"- interview with Mazhar ul Islam
      • Don’t be dull
      • Neither aboriginal nor postcolonial - An interview with Mohsin Hamid
      • The horizon is an advertisement
    • 1994
      • A maestro of metaphors
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    • Portfolio
      • Creative Writing
        • The Sharpness of Grass Blades
        • The internal maps of the terrorised
        • Your Sentence
    • Journalistic Work
      • 2020
        • Writers and their nights
        • Classroom Blues
      • 2019
        • To Cambodia with apps
        • Museum, Islands and moonless nights
        • Erasing Uncertainties
        • The raconteur will win in the end
        • Man Proposes…
        • Understanding academic problems
        • ISIS: Ideology, Symbolics, and Counter-Narratives by Masood Ashraf Raja - A
        • Permanent Record by Edward Snowden review - a spellbinding thriller
        • Leaving a mark in 2019
      • 2018
        • Uncomfortable stories
        • The reality of Pakistan's image
        • Poems on Lahore and much much more
        • Straitjackets of rationality
        • Cerebral, political, romantic
        • Rurality and development
        • Three provinces, one trip
        • Three provinces, one trip II
        • "Life is amoral and I try to depict it as such"
        • Monitoring the digital age
      • 2017
        • A political art
        • What ties me to Pakistan/70 years of independence
        • “I'd rather have ten voracious readers…''
        • Experimenting with poems
        • Is the age of poetry over?
        • “A society without literature and arts would be a freak society”
        • A caretaker for the invisible
        • The world of academics
      • 2016
        • Why Iqbal cannot compete with Atif Aslam…
        • Conversing with authors
        • Of work and related civilisational nightmares
        • Re-entering the library
        • Wild but not free
        • Following her own path
        • The originality question
      • 2015
        • An unforgettable lesson of history
        • As good as the original
        • Writing against death
        • Not just a novel
        • A sign of things to come
        • Globalising a local experience
        • The citizen and the outsider
        • If free speech were really free
      • 2014
        • The right to kill
        • Controlling interpretations
        • From manuscript to publishing
        • The art of the possible
        • The 50,000-word letter
        • What the media reports or not
        • The useful bodies
        • Voice of the narrator
        • Celebrate Marquez but why
        • Cafe Le Whore: A strange story-world
        • After a century and a half
        • Inkling of immortality
        • Language of literature
      • 2013
        • Autumnal journey to snow 
        • State of indifference
        • Homeless in Copenhagen
        • Politics by literary means
      • 2009
        • The southern-most source of dignity
        • The gender paradox
        • The internal maps of the terrorised
        • "The government should have nothing to do with any sect"
        • Trust deficit
        • Ghosts of Muridke
        • Spokesman of multiculturalism
        • Zen-like calm of Hunza
        • Nothing is sacred in popular humour. Everything goes
        • The art of peeling the eyelids
        • "…the legal mess the government is in"
        • When a drifter meets another drifter
        • Blasted to modernity
        • Voluntarily displaced
        • State of education
        • State of police rule
        • Love is only so called
        • Plotting against poverty
        • The heart of the world is actually a bullet
        • Where water comes together
        • History of disasters
        • A curious development
        • Between spirits and couriers
      • 2008
        • Bush vs. Al-Zaidi
        • 10 arguments against violence conflict
        • Open to contradictions
        • Raw power versus justice
        • Out in the open
        • Promoters of purity
        • Fragility of it all
        • Listen to what they are saying
        • For an effective safeguard against misuse of religion
        • Against contemporary greed
        • Between sausage and doner kebab
        • Anomalies of the present
        • Poet for paperless people
        • Poverty is also a defence issue
        • By any means necessary Shahenshah's survival story in Athens
        • Waiting among the dead
        • If beard was the only thing to go by
        • This Monday morning stuff
        • Your sentence
        • Even philosophers need to eat
        • Utopia for me Wherever you are, you are legal
        • 'Balochis want to reform the existing order'
        • Caste Schmaste
        • ‘We’re going to wait till May 12’
        • Simplifying the non-West
      • 2007
        • Success of understatement
      • 2006
        • A movement called Edward Said
        • The recent controversy about creativity in Urdu is already archaic
        • "I do not write cold, detached prose"- interview with Mazhar ul Islam
        • Don’t be dull
        • Neither aboriginal nor postcolonial - An interview with Mohsin Hamid
        • The horizon is an advertisement
      • 1994
        • A maestro of metaphors

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The southern-most source of dignity

The gender paradox

The internal maps of the terrorised

"The government should have nothing to do with any sect"

Trust deficit

Ghosts of Muridke

Spokesman of multiculturalism

Zen-like calm of Hunza

Nothing is sacred in popular humour. Everything goes

The art of peeling the eyelids

"…the legal mess the government is in"

When a drifter meets another drifter

Blasted to modernity

Voluntarily displaced

State of education

State of police rule

Love is only so called

Plotting against poverty

The heart of the world is actually a bullet

Where water comes together

History of disasters

A curious development

Between spirits and couriers

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