Bloody Sunday

The list of ‘they’ keeps growing — TTP, Afghan Taliban, ISIS and the like

Zehra Abid

Mar 31, 20163 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

Aug 12, 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

Jun 10, 20153 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

Apr 10, 20154 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

Feb 27, 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

Jan 26, 20153 min read