Lahore
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ZA Bhutto Founds the Pakistan People’s Party in Lahore
Omar Ali reposts Hasan Mujtaba’s Facebook account of how Zulfikar Ali Bhutto founded the Pakistan People’s Party in Lahore, including the origin of its slogan and Bhutto’s later falling-out with…
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Open Thread: From Floods to LaBal
Open thread opening with Sri Lanka’s severe flooding, then Pakistan’s minority rights bill, Sam Dalrymple on Lahore and Delhi, Ella Wadia’s debut at LaBal, AOC on an AI bubble, a…
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Bollywood calling Pakistan. Again.
RecoveringNewsJunkie reacts to a Hindi film trailer set among Karachi’s Lyari gang wars, finding it unoriginal. He doubts the cultural appropriation charge but sees a missed chance for Pakistani actors…
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Capsule Review: The Return of Faraz Ali
A capsule review of Aamina Ahmed’s novel The Return of Faraz Ali, set between Lahore’s red-light area and the powerful around Yahya Khan’s martial law. The reviewer finds it well…
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A Light Goes Out in Lahore
A repost of a 2013 essay on the murder in Lahore of an eye surgeon and his eleven-year-old son, which the author attributes to sectarian killers and to impunity in…
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Interview with Radcliffe
Omar Ali reproduces an extract from Kuldip Nayar’s book Scoop, in which Nayar recalls Cyril Radcliffe saying he nearly gave India Lahore but kept it for Pakistan because it would…
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Remembering DIG Lonsdale Niblett, Lahore’s Legendary Policeman
Reproduces an obituary of Lahore police officer Lonsdale Niblett, who died in Virginia aged 93, recalling his career from the Punjab Police in 1947, his choice of Pakistan at Partition…
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Happy Lahore day
X.T.M welcomes Pakistan honouring one of Lahore’s greatest figures and urges the country to own its history in a collaborative way.
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Paki Elites & where they live
X.T.M offers an impressionistic guide to where Pakistan’s elites live, placing political and bureaucratic power in Islamabad, the military in Rawalpindi, economic elites in Lahore and the country’s most cosmopolitan,…
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An Honor-able Society
Reproduces Tribune and Telegraph reports on a Lahore mother who police say burned her daughter alive for marrying by choice, with other recent cases, a government inquiry and the Human…
