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Zainul Abedin
Zainul Abedin

  • January 19, 2020

    Imagine a boot

    Mr Vawda essentially made two points as he displayed boot fetishism. Like any fetishist, he loves the mysterious powers the object of his adulation...

  • July 28, 2017

    News Analysis: Devil's advocate or lethal weapon?

    Chaudhry Nisar has suddenly come to represent, for himself and for some media commentators, all that is good but becoming extinct in our politics....

  • July 15, 2017

    The Panama drama: an unabashedly political view

    News Analysis If they must go down, the PML-N and the Sharifs are not going down without a fight. They cannot afford to. The contours of this fight...

  • February 05, 2017

    Freedom vs freedom

    Reproduced below are parts of two much longer articles published in May 2014. The articles were of a series written in the context of the shooting...

  • April 30, 2016

    Umberto Eco, Brother William and a thief

    "Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book." — Thomas Kempis Book thieves are cruel bastards. I...

  • April 30, 2016

    Umberto Eco, Brother William and a thief

    "Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book." — Thomas Kempis Book thieves are cruel bastards. I...

  • May 25, 2014

    The Media’s escape from freedom

    The human conditionFreedom of the media was a gift from the warrior clan to the shudras scavengi

  • May 18, 2014

    The moment of a media man

    The human conditionBoth in misery and maturity Pakistan has progressed too far for patriotism on

  • May 11, 2014

    The radical kind of love

    The human conditionUnder the strains of revolutionary life, Sukhdev, the cold strategist of revo

  • May 04, 2014

    The soul's spokesman

    The hunger strike started by Bhagat in Mianwali Jail became a saga of heroic resistance in the Lahor

  • April 27, 2014

    Hamid Mir and those we do not speak of

    Hamid Mir has named Those We Do Not Speak Of, or speak of only in utmost reverence because they are

  • April 20, 2014

    Jinnah in the time of the PPO

    The human condition“In an age where the powers assumed by the state against its citizens... far

  • April 13, 2014

    Spare the ‘freedom fighter’

    One of the most telling signs of our intellectual backwardness is our obsession with ‘great men’ of

  • April 06, 2014

    Who - and what - was Bhutto?

    The human conditionHe was a crook and an impostor. He was a visionary and a revolutionary. He wa

  • March 30, 2014

    A different kind of freedom and secularism

    The human conditionKoi dam ka mehman hoon ai ahle mehfil, Chiragh-e-seher hoon, bujha chahta hoo

  • March 24, 2014

    Bhagat Singh: for the deaf to hear

    Part - IIThough it keeps resounding with "Inqilab Zindabad," the film does little to explain the

  • March 23, 2014

    Bhagat Singh: for the deaf to hear

    Part - IMore than eight decades after he proudly walked to the gallows in the Lahore Central Jai

  • April 21, 2013

    Time we got it right

    The human conditionThe latest offering from the land of ironies: in a country where, in the not

  • June 15, 2011

    The mark of Cain

    You see these faces daily, on your way to work, on your way to the mall, as you walk, drive or are d