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Syed Jalal HussainThe Express Tribune |
In March 1981, in a remote jail in the desert of Sindh, a 27-year-old woman lay awake on a rope cot and listened to a prison clock strike through the...
Pakistan has a habit of explaining itself. At conferences, in communiqués, across polished tables where words like potential and reform are passed...
There are lives that gather reverence, and others that carry consequence. The life of Imam Ali (AS) bore both, as a lifetime unfolded, cultivating...
More than two years into his imprisonment, Imran Khan still refuses to recede into the background of Pakistan's political memory. The rallies have...
In the spring of 2007, when black coats filled the streets and the lawyers' movement roared across Pakistan's cities, the country witnessed something...
Constitutions in Pakistan rarely die in flames. They survive the heat, only to be quietly rewritten by those who once swore to protect them. The 27th...
The old roads to Waziristan are haunted again. At night, the air smells of pine and gunpowder, and it hums with stories of men climbing down from the...
In 2005 at Edgbaston, Brett Lee knelt in the dust, body broken by one of the most bruising Tests of his career. Australia had lost by two runs, the...
"Je Ravi vich paani koi naeen, te apni kahani koi naeen " If the Ravi holds no water, there is no story to tell. The Ravi begins the lament. Sajjad...
There is a moment, just before the storm breaks, when the air goes still. So still it feels unnatural. That's where we are now. On the edge of...
Bano Satakzai stood on the cracked earth of Dagari, a village that once echoed with her childhood laughter. Across from her stood men she had known...
Each year, as the Islamic calendar turns to Muharram, a familiar question resurfaces: why does a 7th-century event in the deserts of Karbala continue...
Power, once loud and territorial, now moves silently. It flows through undersea cables, over smart rail, beneath oil pipelines, and into the...
Irtaza Abbas Turi was seven years old. He had no knowledge of geopolitics, no stake in borders, no understanding of the hate that precedes a missile....