Stories by Nazish Brohi

THE COGNITIVE DISSONANCE OF RAPE

Women instinctively recognised the CCPO Lahore from his statements

Published 20 Sep, 2020 07:00am

Winning the peace

The demands for accountability are not a rejection of the state but the trajectory to its acceptance.

Published 21 Apr, 2019 07:13am

Playing the odds

Democratising institutions that could serve as proxies becomes part of the larger political interest.

Published 03 Sep, 2018 06:01am

SEXUAL HARASSMENT: PAKISTAN’S TIPPING POINT?

A spate of sexual harassment allegations have been highlighted recently. Are the numbers piling up?

Updated 07 May, 2018 05:53pm

Bearing witness

Moving towards an inclusive, plural model will not undermine Pakistan’s existence.

Published 22 Apr, 2018 07:19am

Missing links

The arguments about missing persons are smokescreens.

Published 25 Feb, 2018 07:19am

The state and diyat

Islamic scholars have spoken out against how the diyat law is currently misused in the country.

Updated 03 Feb, 2018 03:58pm

What festers below

Rules and procedures are not only a maze but also work as an extractive industry.

Published 16 Sep, 2017 07:05am

What’s in a word?

Much to activists’ frustration, there’s no local word for rape.

Published 08 Aug, 2017 05:22am

Veils of violence

Hidden in blasphemy accusations lie the property case, the enmity...

Published 23 Jul, 2017 07:28am

Brain fog

Good questions may be more important than good answers.

Published 11 Jul, 2017 07:01am

‘Operation Same Page’

The risk that Pakistan’s democracy presents is that it leans towards oppressive majoritarianism.

Published 06 Jun, 2017 01:21am

State of the state

There will not be a historic moment heralding rivers gushing with the milk of democracy.

Published 05 Nov, 2016 03:25am

A city simmers

The damp and the dry both burn.

Updated 28 Aug, 2016 07:31am

Honour & deviance

The honour code earlier was a governance code.

Published 28 Jul, 2016 03:19am

Contesting culture

Artists wouldn’t feel so insecure if the state had acted earlier.

Published 12 Jul, 2016 03:16am

Magical angst

The maddest conspiracy becomes real.

Published 27 May, 2016 02:59am

Guarding the guardians

The spillover of police tactics is inevitable as paramilitary forces increasingly take over the task of policing.

Published 10 May, 2016 06:57am

Undoing dissonance

The power of intra-community social control has broken down.

Published 18 Apr, 2016 02:09am

Detoxifying the body politic

Christians, the largest religious minority in Punjab, face persecution at three levels.

Published 05 Apr, 2016 01:53am