S Iftikhar Murshed

S Iftikhar Murshed

  • ‘A bloody difficult woman’

    In mid-April, when Prime Minister Theresa May – self-described as “a bloody difficult woman” – announced a snap general...

  • Zarmena of Waziristan

    I had never met or even heard of Zarmena Wazir. The unrelentingly alert print and electronic media were also unaware that this young woman from the...

  • John Bull’s little island

    The writer is the publisher of Criterion Quarterly. Like lemmings the British have hurtled over the precipice into an economic and political abyss...

  • Sahabzada Yaqub Khan of Pakistan

    In the passing of Sahabzada Yaqub-Khan, the country has lost a statesman of towering international stature. The New York Times described him in 1999...