Qandeel Baloch
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Honour and Acid: The Great Indus Split
X.T.M tests the claim that honour killing is Pakistan’s inheritance from Indus culture and acid attacks India’s. The data are messy and undercounted, but the line broadly holds. Both practices…
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Why is Pakistani Culture obsessed with Policing Female Virginity?
X.T.M reflects on an overheard story of a Pakistani-origin daughter in Europe and the murders of Sana Cheema and Qandeel Baloch. The post argues that policing a daughter’s body remains…
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💔Sana Yusuf Did Not Have to Die
After the murder of TikTok creator Sana Yusuf in Karachi, X.T.M argues that violence against women in Pakistan is an outcome of a society built on honour and male entitlement,…
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What the f*ck is Pakistan/PTI doing
Reacting angrily to a Facebook post about the PTI government’s agenda for Pakistani television drama, the poster calls it self-destructive and says a culture that defames martyrs to freedom such…
