Ahmadi killings – we are all guilty
On Friday, May 28, 2010, gunmen wearing suicide jackets and carrying grenades opened fire on two separate Ahmadi congregations in the city of Lahore as they were gathered for Friday prayer. Men got...
Author: Kyla Pasha
Kyla Pasha is a Pakistani poet, journalist, and contributing editor to GC. Please visit her homepage here.
Faisal Shahzad: actually, Pakistan is a great ally on the war on terror
So another guy with a Muslim name, this time a Pakistani name, recently attempted to attack an American target. I've been watching the Daily Show about it, along with the other news channels of equal...
Status
Yearns for the porchlights of lovers not yet been but cannot also remove those who’ve been and gone. Lover- here-lover-now is tattooed in luminous ink on the thinnest skin of my chest, so no one...
Water
These days I imagine a life without you like one might imagine the seas ending – the story moves across barren landscapes flecked with the debris of dead civilizations and people live in tin...
Ashura explosions: sanctimonious murder
When I was in college in the US, I dated someone who used to say, “I'm a Christian with a big crush on Islam.” I think it's safe to say that I'm a Sunni with a big crush on Shi'ism. This is a...
Moon Market explosions
I had never even heard of Moon Market. Iqbal Town is several kilometres away from Gulberg, where I live and work, and is a kind of mini-city on its own. I visited there once, to drop a student home,...
Reflecting on Sheema Kermani: nostalgia and struggle in Pakistani feminism
It's an amazing thing, watching a woman's rights activist from my parents' generation in action. The passion that those women had at the height of the women's movement in the 80s when they were...
Potohar
Please welcome Kyla Pasha as our newly minted regular columnist. Her column will feature both poetry and articles, with South Asia being the focus of the latter. - The Management. 1. The rivers are...
Terror in Pakistan: us against them, them against us, fade out
My grandmother, who's from Pittsburgh, was very afraid that I'd turn out not American enough, so she taught me the Pledge of Allegiance and the "Star-Spangled Banner," asking me to recite them every...
The Day Saved
Wonder woman has nothing to do. Sat on her back porch with her underwear still on the outside and a beer in her hand, she knows: Metropolis is fine. The Riddler’s dead. All the vampires exploded...