This anthology of short stories brings to life Pakistan’s diverse experiences and emotions.
A tale about love, freedom and jihad — woven around history
A conversation with British academic, Prof Yunas Samad
Taha Kehar’s new novel dares to explore death and the quirks of Karachi’s social divide
Iqbal explored the modern divergence between poetic and religious imagination
Literature is political but it cannot always be used to serve narrow ends
This year’s Islamabad Literature Festival seemed to have an optimistic slant
The forgotten journeys chronicled by forty-five diverse Muslim women spanning the late Seventeenth Century to the mid-Twentieth
For good art a delicate balance between didacticism and imagination is essential
A quick, engaging read about life as lived and experienced by the author