Author Archives: Kyla Pasha

Status

Never, there were never, dragons.
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Water

flecked with the debris of dead civilizations and people
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Ashura explosions: sanctimonious murder

We become Yazid.
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Moon Market explosions

All the shopkeepers that they've been trading with for 20 years are dead.
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Reflecting on Sheema Kermani: nostalgia and struggle in Pakistani feminism

The fire of the women's movement was ignited then, when women were flogged in public squares for adultery.
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Potohar

The rivers are dry and open. There are grooves
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Terror in Pakistan: us against them, them against us, fade out

I can sing "Pak Sarzameen" just as well as "The Star-Spangled Banner." I can put my hand on my heart.
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The Day Saved

Wonder woman has nothing to do. Sat on her back porch with her underwear
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Collateral damage: protesting the Swat flogging

As they lay there, inert, the other women shouted, “Cowards, answer! Answer for the lashes!”
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Unity, faith, discipline, terror and the Manawan Police Training School

Rahman Malik is shooting his rhetorical guns into the air much as the security forces fired their rifles from the roof of the training facility after it had been regained from the attackers. His tone is celebratory.
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