Extraordinary Rendition

By Hakim Hazik 

We travelled in a cattle truck from the Outback to Canberra, on Qantas to Singapore and First Class on TIA, from there on to the Capital City. We were given immunisation against the yellow fever virus, the foot and mouth virus, the glanders virus and the suo moto virus.  More...

Letter to the Queen

By Asif Raja

HRM, The Queen 

Dear Madam, 

It has been a long time that I wrote to you last. Needless to say, I never bothered to post you those letters that I had written, or made any attempt to email you. I did go back on my promise to write to you regularly. If memory serves right it was to be a weekly affair but like any good Pakistani Muslim it never happened, for which I am guilty as charged. More...

Justice Denied 

By: Shabana Hamad Raza

It’s 14^th May. 7’o clock alarm bells on Hamad’s mobile as it did on every morning. It has been a year since, but that alarm bell still echoes in my mind and shivers my soul.  It was time for him to wake up and go to office. But it was not an ordinary day. Instead of being on his bed, he was lying breathless at the PIMS emergency ward.  More...

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Transcultural Dialogues 

By: Hakim Hazik

Ironside: God appoints and Abdul Hamid anoints. His touch can make gold out of dust heaps and kings out of trash. His magic word can turn charters, manifestos, declarations and case files to smoke. You must be raking it in Brother aren’t you? More...

Why the “gradualists” were wrong.

By Omar Ali

In the days following the election I received a good deal of mail from “gradualists” who felt that “precipitate action” at this sensitive juncture would somehow disrupt the supposedly “delicate” process of transition to democracy in Pakistan. I was among those who insisted that such “gradualism” would NOT lead to transition to democracy. Rather, it would lead BACK to rule by secret agencies and behind the scenes operatives. More...