Huma Yusuf

Tool to facilitate censorship

IT seems many Pakistanis have been enjoying forwarding text messages poking fun at President Asif Zardari because ... Published 20 Jul, 2009 12:00am

Effects of Uighur unrest

RUSSIA may have dismissed the recent violence in China`s western Xinjiang province as an`internal matter`, but the... Published 13 Jul, 2009 12:00am

Effects of Uighur unrest

RUSSIA may have dismissed the recent violence in China`s western Xinjiang province as an`internal matter`, but the... Published 13 Jul, 2009 12:00am
From Main Street to my street

From Main Street to my street

Pakistanis have little regard for the shared spaces they inhabit in their everyday lives, writes Huma Yusuf. During... Published 10 Jul, 2009 04:16pm

The Somali example

IF pre-military operation Swat has a global counterpart, it`s Somalia. Exchange the Taliban for Al-Shabab, a radical... Published 06 Jul, 2009 12:00am

Burka & women`s liberation

FROM Fata to France, the question of what differentiates moderate from extremist Islam is being settled on the ... Published 29 Jun, 2009 12:00am

Burka & women`s liberation

FROM Fata to France, the question of what differentiates moderate from extremist Islam is being settled on the ... Published 29 Jun, 2009 12:00am

Burka & women`s liberation

FROM Fata to France, the question of what differentiates moderate from extremist Islam is being settled on the ... Published 29 Jun, 2009 12:00am
Michael Jackson is in all of us

Michael Jackson is in all of us

Desis made the King of Pop one of their own a long time ago, writes Huma Yusuf. One of my best friends and I first... Published 26 Jun, 2009 06:22pm

Why US interference?

THE winds of American military rhetoric have shifted again. Last week, Gen David Petraeus repeatedly hammered home... Published 22 Jun, 2009 12:00am

Why US interference?

THE winds of American military rhetoric have shifted again. Last week, Gen David Petraeus repeatedly hammered home... Published 22 Jun, 2009 12:00am

Different needs

EARLIER this month, Nafeesa Shah, general secretary of the Women Parliamentarians Caucus, visited IDP camps to... Published 15 Jun, 2009 12:00am
The Lahore blast and Taliban ideology

The Lahore blast and Taliban ideology

The fight against the Taliban on ideological battlegrounds poses a grave challenge, writes Dawn.com's Huma Yusuf.... Published 12 Jun, 2009 05:02pm

Going skin deep

With Faraz Maqsood Hamidi`s Skin, contemporary Pakistani poetry in English steps up to its prose counterpart. The... Published 07 Jun, 2009 12:00am

More military solutions

TO manage the war against the Taliban in the long run, the Pakistan Army and the government have to keep up a ... Published 07 Jun, 2009 12:00am

Review: Going skin deep

The anthology of over 70 poems comprises intense bursts of wit and word play. — File With Faraz Maqsood Hamidi`s... Published 07 Jun, 2009 12:00am

KARACHI: A woman`s perspective

KARACHI What should a writer do with ideas and images that never make it into a published novel? Repurpose them for... Published 06 Jun, 2009 12:00am
Who was Obama really addressing?

Who was Obama really addressing?

Dawn.com’s Huma Yusuf argues that the best bits of Obama's address to the Muslim world were those in which he wasn't... Published 05 Jun, 2009 06:17pm