The writer is a Fulbright doctoral fellow at the Department of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Binghamton and an author of Writing Pakistan: Conversations on Identity, Nationhood and Fiction. Previously, he served with the Pakistan Navy for sixteen years and retired as a Lieutenant Commander.
Freedom of expression is important not only because it is a fundamental human right and a democratic ideal but also because it leads to newer ideas...
Juxtaposition of two events that offers a unique telescope to understand the religious undercurrents in today’s Pakistan