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Zehra Abid
Aug 12, 20153 min read
Where will Kasur’s children go?
Where will these children go whose bodies have been touched in ways that will forever haunt them — who may never learn to trust again?
Zehra Abid
Jun 18, 201510 min read
Blasphemy in Pakistan: The case of Aasia Bibi
Exclusive access to sealed court transcripts raises serious concerns about the trial of the only woman on death row, a Christian
Zehra Abid
Jun 10, 20153 min read
What is good enough reason for massacre?
Reasoning with killings or ‘unreasoning’ with them, however, is an exercise we should have given up on long ago
Zehra Abid
Apr 10, 20154 min read
For Tehseen sb and the 26,300 others
According to the UNHCR, Pakistan recorded the highest number of asylum applications last year, nearly 26,300
Zehra Abid
Feb 27, 20153 min read
A life’s constant fear
With every attack, I fearfully imagine that soon I may be mourning a lost love, searching for them in alien places.
Zehra Abid
Jan 27, 20158 min read
Pakistan's silent partition
Ahmadis, a persecuted Muslim sect, have been flocking to Sri Lanka in search of asylum. Now they're being turned away
Zehra Abid
Jan 26, 20153 min read
Our right to mourn
There is not even enough time to think about long-term solutions before narratives are changed and focus is shifted
Zehra Abid
Dec 20, 20147 min read
‘All our homes are mourning’: The aftermath of the Peshawar tragedy
The attack that took the lives of 132 schoolchildren has left an indelible mark on a city long used to violence
Zehra Abid
Jun 2, 20146 min read
Echoes of a silent exodus
As people continue to leave Peshawar, they take a part of the city with them.
Zehra Abid
May 31, 20146 min read
When time stopped at All Saints Church
Eight months after the twin blasts, the dead seem to be more fortunate than the living.
Zehra Abid
Mar 2, 20147 min read
Mian Iftikhar and the five stages of a man
At 56, in the face of frequent death threats, former minister reflects on his life like a man in his nineties acutely aware of his mortality
Zehra Abid
Mar 2, 20145 min read
The boy who won a million hearts
17-year-old Aitizaz Hassan Bangash died preventing a suicide bomber from entering his school
Zehra Abid
Nov 24, 20134 min read
It's all in a day's work for these French beauties
Theirs is a story of many ambitions. They want to be sports teachers, doctors and businesswomen, but for now all these dreams have been...
Zehra Abid
Sep 24, 20133 min read
Silent casualties of a decade of war
According to the report, 30-40% people in Karachi suffer from common mental disorders (CMDs).
Zehra Abid
Aug 23, 20133 min read
Sawa 14 August and delusions of the past
With more than four decades of history told in 90 minutes, the play is about something and nothing at the same time.
Zehra Abid
Jan 22, 20124 min read
A widow’s story: Pay the ransom, receive a body bag
It had been a long wait: 22 days. On the last day, Batool* waited all night for her husband to come home. She had cooked and kept aside...
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