Ziyad Faycal

The Pakistani media is currently committing a crime for which history should never forgive it. And those of you who will write the chronicles of this time, decades from now, must remember this and ensure that their memory is stained and vilified when the final accounts are written — in a distant time and space […]

You can gauge how disgusting right-wing urban Punjab is by the fact that a lot of good folks praising or welcoming Malala have to warn people not to come to their space and talk shit about the kid. Predictably, the Youthiya, alt-Youthiya and post-Youthiya crowd from Punjab often takes the lead in being scum on […]

A conservative fool of a guy was raging in my presence about “those women” who go around with placards reading “Khaana khud garam kar lo” (Heat up your own food). He’d seen something about it on TV and social media. After a short ‘debate’, he easily conceded that his position would have been very different […]