Mosharraf Zaidi wrote a column for The News until December 2011. This website archives his articles and essays.

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Mumbai Mirror: An unmitigated outrage

http://www.mumbaimirror.com/article/2/2011030320110303025605286f56a960e/An-unmitigated-outrage.html Thursday, March 03, 2011 The daylight assassination of Shahbaz Bhatti will be dissected in great detail. Who killed him? What is this new terrorist group that claimed responsibility? Why was he murdered? What will it take to speak freely and boldly about Pakistan’s dysfunctional criminal code, whose blasphemy provisions are at the heart of [...]

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Finding space for linear reason
October 11, 2011
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Dealing with ‘non-linear reason’
October 4, 2011
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Flying into Lyari for Eid
September 6, 2011
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The unthinking Pakistani society
August 27, 2011
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Progress in a messy democracy
August 16, 2011
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Punjab, Karachi and decentralisation
August 9, 2011
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The quintessential ‘un-city’
August 2, 2011
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Telling Pakistan’s story
June 28, 2011
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The Gilani and Sharif Show
June 22, 2011
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GHQ and dangerous binaries
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