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“We are overcoming history”

Ammara Ahmad talks to the Afghan ambas­sador to Pak­istan, His Excel­len­cy Janan Mosazai, about trade, ter­ror­ism, and crick­et.
Ammara Ahmad: A few months ago, you said that this is the ‘new chap­ter” for rela­tions between Pak­istan and Afghanistan. What exact­ly did you mean?

Is Peshawar Tragedy Going to Change Anything in Denialistan?

Will this prove to be the turn­ing point in the war against extrem­ism and ter­ror­ism? At least, I am not opti­mistic. They bombed the Meena Bazar in Peshawar, killing 101 and injur­ing over 200 peo­ple, many of them women and chil­dren. We blamed “Black­wa­ter” for the dead­ly attacks. They ripped through the Haz­ara town twice […]

The Wandering Falcon

Fati­ma Mul­lick ‘The Wan­der­ing Fal­con’ — Jamil Ahmad’s first offer­ing to the world of fic­tion — explores the tra­di­tion­al, hon­our-bound cul­ture of the remote regions that strad­dle the bor­ders of Afghanistan, Pak­istan and Iran. Often appear­ing in the news for extrem­ism, law­less­ness and drone attacks, these shad­owy ‘bad­lands’ are still lit­tle under­stood by peo­ple in […]