SELECT PUBLIC WORKS
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The Distributed Empire of the WoT
Boston Review | Essay. “Lost in all this business of soul-wounded warriors is the relatively unfashionable wounding of empire’s targets. It doesn’t make for the kind of war story Americans want to learn about.”
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Who's Afraid of Imran Khan?
The Caravan | Profile | Long-form cover story on Pakistan’s Prime Minister, and former cricket player, during his rise to power.
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Louder Than Bombs
The New Inquiry | Essay. “After the interview is over, Sadaullah Wazir pulls the pant legs over the stubs of his knees till they conceal the bone-colored prostheses.”
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The Drone Lobby's Image Problem
Al-Jazeera | Oped. That war technology has uses beyond war doesn’t justify the funding of technologies whose core mission is war.
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Balochistan: Pakistan's Broken Mirror
The National | Cover story. Longform piece on the Balochistan separatist insurgency. Print title: Born Against. 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.
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Life in the Dronescape: An Interview with Madiha Tahir
Vice Motherboard | Interview
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Drone Blowback is a Bad Argument. Here's Why
Warscapes | Madiha Tahir & Mahvish Ahmad | Critique. “Not only do we disagree with the underlying assumptions of Shah’s arguments, but we find that the article even fails on its own terms”
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Letter From Karachi
Foreign Affairs | Essay. “More than 30 people have been murdered across Karachi this week in politically motivated violence between Mohajirs and Pashtuns, but it is Facebook -- or rather the controversy raging over its ban in Pakistan -- that draws a crowd.”
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Questions About Effectiveness US Drones
BBC & PRI’s The World | Radio | Reportage. “CIA initiated drone strikes into Pakistan have killed some high-value militants, but controversy swirls over their legality “
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Attack on Naval Base
BBC & PRI’s The World | Radio | Reportage. “The deadly attack on the base was reportedly carried out by just six Taliban fighters. It was the worst attack on a Pakistani military installation since 2009.”
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What Did the Army Know?
BBC & PRI’s The World | Radio | Reportage. “The army claims not to have known that America's most wanted terrorist was living less than a half mile from Pakistan's country's main military academy.”
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Killing Osama bin Laden
BBC & PRI’s The World | Radio | Reportage. Many Pakistanis today were reluctant to believe that Bin Laden had been killed. That isn’t because they support him.Description goes here
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Bin Laden's Death
Wall Street Journal | Pakistanis react to news of the American operation in Abbottabad that killed Osama bin Laden. (photo)
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Covering Pakistan: How Journalists and Experts Reproduce Empire
LeftTurn | Essay. “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, angry male youth, and the need for military operations.”
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Reimagining Pakistan
FOTO 8 UK | Essay. “Islamism as an electoral program is not widespread…But it counters the disappointment of secular nationalism to deliver, the failure of state modernization, and government complicity in the American imperial project.”
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Chaos Theory: How Pakistan Was Cast As a FAILED STATE
Columbia Journalism Review | Essay. “It would be difficult to know from recent articles that Pakistanis scored a stunning mass-political victory only a few weeks ago.”
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Flood Victims & Unfolding Disaster
DemocracyNow! | Video | Reportage. Filed from flood-ravaged Sindh to tell the story of refugees and victims of the one heaviest floods in Pakistan’s history.
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Flood Aid Falls Short
DemocracyNow! | Video | Reportage. Filed from the Razzaqabad relief camp in Karachi where flood refugees are growing daily and supplies are running low.
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Raymond Davis Affair
BBC & PRI’s The World | Radio | Reportage. Description goes hereThe US says Raymond Davis should be released on diplomatic immunity grounds, but Pakistan says he is a murder suspect. (photo)
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Rallies to Support Blasphemy Law
BBC & PRI’s The World | Radio | Reportage. Over 50,000 demonstrators rallied in Pakistan’s teeming port city of Karachi to support the blasphemy law. (photo)
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Secular Parties in a Political Showdown
BBC & PRI’s The World | Radio | Reportage. Pakistan’s two largest secular parties at loggerheads at a moment when the role of religion in politics is being hotly debated.
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Flood Aid Runs Low
BBC & PRI’s The World | Radio | Reportage. Pakistan still struggles to cope with its worst natural disaster in living memory. At least eight million people remain dependent on handouts. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
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Solidarity After the Floods
BBC & PRI’s The World | Radio| Reportage. In the wake of devastating floods that have left millions displaced, Pakistanis organize grassroots aid efforts. (photo)
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Sufi Music in New York
BBC & PRI’s The World | Radio | Reportage. Pakistan sent famous Sufi musicians to the US to portray a softer side to an audience that often sees Pakistan as a haven for terrorists. (photo)