The Green That Faded on March 25, 2025Pakistan cricket has long been a source of national pride, an escape from the country’s everyday struggles, and, at times, a rare unifier in an otherwise divided society. In Pakistan, cricket is not just a sport—it’s muscle memory, a language spoken fluently in every street and drawing room. It’s the sound of a tape ball […]
Mustafa Zaidi and the Politics of Silence in Pakistan on January 13, 2025The untimely death of Mustafa Zaidi, a brilliant poet and civil servant, remains one of the great mysteries of Pakistan’s literary and political history. Found lifeless in Karachi in 1970, alongside a socialite embroiled in scandal, Zaidi’s demise was ruled as a suicide—an explanation that raised more questions than it answered. More than half a […]