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

Blasphemy in Pakistan: The case of Aasia Bibi

Exclusive access to sealed court transcripts raises serious concerns about the trial of the only woman on death row, a Christian

Zehra Abid

Jun 18, 201510 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

Pakistan's silent partition

Ahmadis, a persecuted Muslim sect, have been flocking to Sri Lanka in search of asylum. Now they're being turned away

Zehra Abid

Jan 27, 20158 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

‘All our homes are mourning’: The aftermath of the Peshawar tragedy

The attack that took the lives of 132 schoolchildren has left an indelible mark on a city long used to violence

Zehra Abid

Dec 20, 20147 min read

Echoes of a silent exodus

As people continue to leave Peshawar, they take a part of the city with them.

Zehra Abid

Jun 2, 20146 min read

When time stopped at All Saints Church

Eight months after the twin blasts, the dead seem to be more fortunate than the living.

Zehra Abid

May 31, 20146 min read

Mian Iftikhar and the five stages of a man

At 56, in the face of frequent death threats, former minister reflects on his life like a man in his nineties acutely aware of his mortality

Zehra Abid

Mar 2, 20147 min read

The boy who won a million hearts

17-year-old Aitizaz Hassan Bangash died preventing a suicide bomber from entering his school

Zehra Abid

Mar 2, 20145 min read

It's all in a day's work for these French beauties

Theirs is a story of many ambitions. They want to be sports teachers, doctors and businesswomen, but for now all these dreams have been...

Zehra Abid

Nov 24, 20134 min read

Silent casualties of a decade of war

According to the report, 30-40% people in Karachi suffer from common mental disorders (CMDs).

Zehra Abid

Sep 24, 20133 min read

Sawa 14 August and delusions of the past

With more than four decades of history told in 90 minutes, the play is about something and nothing at the same time.

Zehra Abid

Aug 23, 20133 min read

A widow’s story: Pay the ransom, receive a body bag

It had been a long wait: 22 days. On the last day, Batool* waited all night for her husband to come home. She had cooked and kept aside...

Zehra Abid

Jan 22, 20124 min read