THE PLIGHT OF DEATH-ROW INMATES TAKES CENTER STAGE IN LAHORE. “It’s easy to dismiss someone as a demon or an aberration,” says Justice Project Pakistan’s Sarah Belal of deathrow inmates. “But most of these cases are far more complex and require a greater commitment to empathy and comprehension from society.” To draw out this commitment, …
AUTHORS AND HISTORIANS RECALL THE WRITINGS THAT MADE THEM FANS OF THE CELEBRATED URDU-LANGUAGE WRITER. Considered by many as the greatest Urdu language writer of the 20th century, Saadat Hasan Manto published 22 collections of short stories, one novel, and several collections of essays and plays during the course of a 21 year long career. …
With the mounting excitement surrounding America’s upcoming election season, it is easy to forget that similar elections all over the world promise to change the global political landscape by 2013. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Pakistan, where the country’s fractured democracy is going to be facing its first uninterrupted parliamentary elections later this …
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Before coming to NYU, I was often confronted with cautionary advice from family members. My father warned me not to be active in NYU’s Islamic Center. Though I was con-vinced that his worries were borne out of a parent’s exaggerated concern, when I came to New York, any traces of anxiety I might have had …
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