Drone Blowback
Warscapes | Jun 04.2016 Madiha Tahir & Mahvish Ahmad. Drone blowback is a bad argument. Here’s why.
Poor Little Rich Boy
Express Tribune | Apr 15.2016 A scion of one of the wealthiest families in Pakistan trashed a couple of college students over a school project.
Law of the Father
The News | Mar 02.2016 Madiha Tahir & Mahvish Ahmad. Honor killing and the death penalty depend upon the same logic.
National Insecurity Plan
The News | Jan 27.2016 Madiha Tahir & Mahvish Ahmad. NAP is neither a plan, nor particularly national.
Rallies & Resistance
Al Jazeera English | May 06.2014 For younger Baloch, the problem is no longer about economic dividends but independence.
The Drone Lobby
Al Jazeera English | Mar 22.2014 The drone lobby has got a reality problem. Drone lobbyists like to think of it as an image problem.
Drones & Privilege
The News | Nov 14.2013 A recent article in these pages on my film, ‘Wounds of Waziristan’, is replete with ad hominem attacks.
Louder than Bombs
The New Inquiry | Jul 16.2012 The articles published in the days following the attack on September 7, 2009, do not mention this poker-faced, slim teenage boy.
Print | Imran Khan Profile
Cover Story.
Reading Pakistan
Jadaliyya | Apr 15.2011 Here are the stripped down facts: Pakistan is roughly 165 million people. Most of us are young: 69 percent of the population is under age 30.
Issue 29: The Islam Issue
Foto 8 UK | Apr 01.2011 It is not accidental that a rally demanding the blood from one woman should revere the other. Between Aasiya and Aafia spans an entire politcal discourse.
Movements Not Media
The Friday Times | Feb 04.2011 Let me concede at the outset: the Islamists are not entirely wrong. They note an affinity between the west’s discourse about Islam and ours.
Covering Pakistan
Left Turn | Dec 01.2010 Tomorrow, these images will confirm the story that was written before the rally ever happened. It will be a story about the rise of Islamism.
Pakistan’s Facebook Ban
Foreign Affairs | Jun 01.2010 More than 30 people have been murdered across Karachi this week, but it is the Facebook ban that draws a crowd.
Print | Baloch Insurgency
COVER STORY | A child is fiddling with a poster of a mustachioed man, a missing political worker who may be his father or his uncle, and who is in all likelihood, dead.
Chaos Theory
The Columbia Journalism Review | Apr 24.2009 It would be difficult to know from recent articles that Pakistanis scored a stunning victory only a few weeks ago.
