The Nine Lives of Pakistan

If Pakistan was a person, Christopher Hitchens wrote, he would be ‘humourless, paranoid, insecure, eager to take offence and suffering from self-righteousness, self-pity and self-hatred’;

Aug 28, 2023

In his poem ‘The Saintly Sinner’, Sheikh Mohammed Ibrahim Zauq, a poet laureate of the nineteenth-century Mughal court, wrote of the mullahs: He preaches morals and pines for paradise, but this too is true: He will give his life for houris,* he also loves to screw.

Aug 28, 2023