#HumToo Prime Minister Imran Khan’s persistent peddling of the myth that women’s bodies compel helpless brown men to commit sex crimes has drawn international ignominy but has resonated domestically with pious conservatives. While his views have incensed rights activists, it has been some vanilla ‘lifestyle liberals’ who have unwittingly defied the PM’s lectures on piety, […]
It’s been a K.K. Aziz-ian year for education in Pakistan. The policy of theocratizing education through the Single National Curriculum; the purging of ‘unIslamic’ material by the Punjab Textbook Board; the institutionalizing of Sufi sciences; and the constitutional amendment designed to dismantle an independent Higher Education Commission (HEC), have all been rationalized on the pretext […]
The immediate hot takes that were ricocheting across social media right after the death of Khadim Hussain Rizvi, leader of the Tehreek e Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), revealed a persisting unrest amongst progressive thinkers in Pakistan. The left-leaners felt that Rizvi deserved to be mourned for his rabble-rousing street cred amongst the neglected and unwashed masses, […]
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