February 2012
3 posts
karachi lit. fest →
this is underway in karachi right now. and i almost went. sigh.
it is 2012 and there are panels with kashmiri journos and novelists. at last. oh at last. and mirza waheed’s The Collaborator held a launching session yesterday.
meanwhile, up north, as the spring thaw is being awaited, there was yet another, accidental on-purpose death that was reported. the killing of 22 year old ashiq...
the baloch who is not missing. (who has been... →
“There are more than 8,000 if you believe Baloch nationalists, hundreds according to human rights organisations, 1,100 according to our interior minister Rehman Malik and none according to our intelligence agencies. Senior journalist I. A. Rehman wrote in these pages more than two years ago:
“Instead of offering the embittered Baloch redress and satisfaction the authorities have chosen to...