The writer teaches history at LUMS. He has recently co-edited a volume titled Muslims Against the Muslim League: Critiques of the Idea of Pakistan (New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2017). He tweets @AU_Qasmi
The widespread hatred against Ahmadis is the result of decades of relentless campaigns and one-sided propaganda, which even the abolishment of the...
A historic overview of how a religious group went from being a minority to a fitna. This is the first of a two part series
It seems that the a sizeable faction of the urban middle-class, heteronormative male, Sunni Muslim, rightwing Punjabis is now challenging its own...
If there can be any hope of salvaging Pakistan and reworking its ideational basis, it is now through universities as spaces of dissent
Two passionate and prolific little-known historians, Maulana Muhammad Ishaq Bhatti and Hussain Arif Naqwi, passed away recently
A historical review of the contradictions of Pakistan’s anti-Ahmadi laws
Pakistan may have lost one of the most original and imaginative detective fiction writers, but what needs to be mourned more is the legacy of...
Commemoration of Karbala and remembrance of the sacrifices of Husain have been part of the subcontinent's cultural tradition
In order to develop a progressive and tolerant society, there is no alternative to the eradication of inherently biased legal, institutional...
The preposterous claim by one television anchor -- that the partition violence that led to the brutal killing of millions of Sikhs and Muslims was...
