Pak-US: Shaky Ground
Pakistan’s relations with the US are largely — but not entirely — contingent on its engagement with the Taliban government
Author: Ibrahim Sajid Malick
Editor, Narratives. Technologist, social entrepreneur & digital anthropologist.
Past Forward
As we welcome 2022, there is a sobering realisation that the problems which plagued the beginning of the decade — the pandemic and the economic fallout — are not going away anytime soon. But, at…
The Rise of the Right
As thousands of workers and supporters of the Tehreek-e-Labaaik Pakistan (TLP) threatened to stage a protest in Islamabad, claiming that the government had broken the deal they had come to, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) government…
Ganging up on China
Given the schism in France’s relationship with the US over the submarine issue, will the latter succeed in combining European and regional instruments to address the Chinese challenge?
Our First Year
With the issue in your hand, we celebrate the first anniversary of Narratives, nursed and nurtured with the blood, sweat and money of working journalists. With the launch of Narratives as an independent journalistic endeavour,…
I Have Sinned
Blending anthropology with history, Mathew A. Cook’s Annexation and the Unhappy Valley offers a long overdue critical and nuanced analysis of Sindh’s annexation by the British
End of Empire?
How ironic that within a week of abandoning the project to “emancipate” Afghan women, the Biden Administration faced another defeat: the Texas Supreme Court banned abortion six weeks into pregnancy. The Chair of the Feminist…
Freedom First, Foremost
Freedom is a tender plant; it needs nursing and constant vigilance.” Today, the Independence Day message of Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah from 1959 resonates louder than ever before. People make history, often in conditions not of…
António Guterres urges India to end the use of pellets against children in Occupied Jammu & Kashmir
Prime Minister Imran Khan was given a briefing on the security situation in the country and the region during a visit to the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Secretariat last week. During the visit, the national and…
Indian origin Delta spreading havoc in the world
Indian origin variant of coronavirus, known as “Delta”, easily transmissible form of the virus, has spread to at least 77 countries and regions. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified it as a…