under Faiza S. Khan

First Candidate for a Cold Shower

The Booker-winning author’s enthusiasm for bewildering metaphors is just one of his many literary failures

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20 Jul 2011 | BY Faiza S. Khan
More than a Woman

To rail against polygamy is to argue that women in monogamous relationships are necessarily better off. Would that this were the case.

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19 Apr 2010 | BY Faiza S. Khan
A Day at the Karachi Litfest

I so look forward to the day when cultural activities in Pakistan can be judged on merit rather than the apparently astonishing fact that they exist to begin with.

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24 Mar 2010 | BY Faiza S. Khan
The Death of a City

Lahore, the big, fat, privileged cultural and artistic capital of Pakistan, is running to seed.

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2 Feb 2010 | BY Faiza S. Khan
A Fictional Boom

Pakistan’s alleged literary boom is becoming a case of counting one’s novelists before they hatch.

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7 Jan 2010 | BY Faiza S. Khan
No Sex Please, We’re Pakistani

The Newsline sex survey, titled ‘Sex and the Pakistani Woman’, might lead some readers to believe it may be about sex and the Pakistani woman. It isn’t.

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18 Dec 2009 | BY Faiza S. Khan
Leap of Faith

To look to Islam for answers to why Pakistan’s brainwashed militants are carrying on in the name of religion is to fall for the greatest red herring of this age.

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18 Nov 2009 | BY Faiza S. Khan
The Devil Wore Purdah

Fashion shows are just that, not some great act of defiance, even in a country admittedly going to hell.

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9 Nov 2009 | BY Faiza S. Khan
Take a Chance on Me?

Girls in spandex singing ABBA may well be the last stand against the Taliban, but it’s also still just girls in spandex singing ABBA.

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17 Oct 2009 | BY Faiza S. Khan
Culture Unplugged

…and now Pakistan wants to cleanse its airwaves of vulgar alien (read: Indian) influences.

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8 Oct 2009 | BY Faiza S. Khan
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