Mohammad Taqi
The writer is a Pakistani-American columnist and commentator. He tweets @mazdaki.
Election series
Here’s Why The Results Of Today’s Elections Are Totally Irrelevant
This article is part of Dissent Today’s special series on Pakistan’s general elections. Follow the series here. On Tuesday January 30, 1962, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, a former Prime Minister of Pakistan, was arrested from his Karachi residence on ambiguous charges of anti-state activities, under the Security...
Opinion
To Bring Pakistan Back From The Brink, Military Must Put Its...
This article is part of a series titled “Is There A Way Forward For Pakistan?”. Read more about the series here. Pakistan stands not just on the brink of an economic disaster today but also faces an imminent meltdown of its state institutions. With each...
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Opinion
Raising Pakistan’s Exports: The...
This article is part of a series titled "Is there a way forward for Pakistan?" Read more about the...
Opinion
To Bring Pakistan Back...
This article is part of a series titled “Is There A Way Forward For Pakistan?”. Read more about the...
News
Pakistani Designer Maria B...
Renowned Pakistani designer Maria B has once again issued transphobic remarks, criticising scenes from a drama wherein a father...
Opinion
Recipe For Disaster: ‘Mainstreaming’...
Three days after terming the banned Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) an Indian-backed ‘militant organisation’ and vowing to act against it,...
News
‘Barbarian Act’: Sindh Rangers...
Netizens have criticised Sindh Rangers for hitting a motorcyclist with their speeding vehicle and beating him up. In a video...
News
Woman’s Body Parts Stuffed...
Police have recovered the body parts of an unidentified woman from the bank of Leh Nullah, Rawalpindi. According to the...
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Extremism watch
Overlooking Homegrown Hate, Pakistan Hesitates to Call Islamabad Blast Anti-Shia Violence
ISLAMABAD - Just hours before a suicide bomber struck the Khadija Tul Kubra Shia...
Opinion
How Imaan-Hadi Conviction Marks the Death of Fair Trial in Pakistan
Last week, a trial court in Islamabad convicted human rights lawyers Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir...
Commentary
PTI’s Ambiguous Rhetoric on Taliban Is Dangerous for Pakistan’s Counter-Extremism Efforts
This reporting was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Lauren Brown Fellowship. Islamabad -...
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How My Daughter’s Trial Exposes Pakistan’s Assault on Human Rights
My daughter, a human rights lawyer, and her husband are currently on trial in...