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← Back to all issuesGranta 112: Pakistan
Autumn 2010
Filled with almost 200 million people speaking nearly sixty languages, brought into nationhood under the auspices of a single religion, but wracked with deep separatist fissures and the destabilizing forces of ongoing conflicts in Iran, Afghanistan and Kashmir, Pakistan is one of the most dynamic places in the world today.
From this Issue
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Leila in the Wilderness
Nadeem Aslam
‘It was almost involuntary: it felt like falling, or like rising in a dream.’
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Trying Tripe
Daniyal Mueenuddin
Three months this man’s been off the farm – go back now, back to diesel,...
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The House by the Gallows
Intizar Hussain
‘Along with religion, an unthinking nationalism had become the other god of Pakistan.’
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Butt and Bhatti
Mohammad Hanif
‘Teddy is one of those people who are only articulate when they talk about cricket.’
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Arithmetic on the Frontier
Declan Walsh
‘These days the tempest of Taliban violence ripping across the frontier has shaken Peshawar to its core.’
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Life and Time
Hasina Gul
We grow up but do not comprehend life. We think life is just the passing...
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Mangho Pir
Fatima Bhutto
‘Although they lived in the shadows, they refused to go unnoticed.’
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The Trials of Faisal Shahzad
Lorraine Adams & Ayesha Nasir
Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist Lorraine Adams and Pakistani reporter Ayesha Nasir examine the life of Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-American who attempted to detonate a massive car bomb in New York’s Times Square.
