Suleman Akhtar
Sehwan is everything that contemporary Pakistan is not. It is tolerant. It is inclusive. It does not impose religion.
Updated 21 Feb, 2017 02:34pm
When violence is tolerated and dissent is crushed, it’s not the pen but the gun that would write the future.
Updated 10 Jan, 2017 12:24pm
An uninvited death is always a tragedy, not a sacrifice.
Published 29 Aug, 2016 01:49pm
The Sabri brothers smiled watching their audience enraptured, they knew their legacy was fantastically familiar to them.
Published 25 Jun, 2016 11:53am
"How do you guys celebrate new year in Pakistan in line with Islamic principles?" a German friend asked me...
Updated 24 May, 2016 04:18pm
When the living refuse to speak, the dead talk. Are you listening?
Published 09 May, 2016 12:47pm
It was when the windows of my dorm shook with the sound of a suicide blast in 2008 that I fell in love with Lahore.
Updated 28 Mar, 2016 01:55pm
Our children are the new front of the war — all our children. Those who die and those who kill.
Updated 25 Jan, 2016 04:25pm
We live in a world where the battlefield is not a place anymore, but a condition.
Updated 27 Nov, 2015 03:17pm
When it comes to tragedy, the memory can overshadow the event itself. Memory is human, all too human. History is not.
Updated 30 Sep, 2017 08:17pm
The figure of the displaced is enough to put a question mark over the claim that the world is a safer place today.
Updated 09 May, 2016 05:42pm
If there is a single abbreviation that defines the nature of new media discourse, it is 'RIP'.
Published 17 Jul, 2015 01:31pm
No so-called paradigm shift in the state's policy can take away the scars and stigmas of this 'otherness'.
Updated 14 May, 2015 05:48pm
We 'opine' without knowing and compensate for what we don't know by manipulating what little we do.
Updated 11 Apr, 2015 07:45pm
This is not a war between Sunnis and Shias or between Ajam and Arab. It is simply an act of dynastic self-preservation.
Updated 31 Mar, 2015 11:03pm
Sufism is an inseparable part of life in Sindh. In Pakistan however, even day-to-day living is now an act of resistance.
Updated 16 Feb, 2017 08:24pm
This is not the West vs Islam. It never was.
Updated 11 Jan, 2015 04:53pm
Gods of the past must be questioned if the goddess of present is to smile. Pakistan, however, is still stuck in 1947.
Published 24 Dec, 2014 07:32pm
Beyond the cosmetic eloquence of the talkers, truth, however, persists no matter how unwanted; soaked in crimson.
Published 28 Feb, 2014 04:28pm
If there's anything more concerning than the Rawalpindi incident, its the nature of the discourse that stemmed from it.
Published 19 Nov, 2013 05:15pm
