Here are pdfs/links to my writings (in print) and tv/radio spots.
November 5, 2007. “Pakistan’s Musharraf Gets U.S. Backing for Crackdown Just Days Before Court Decision on Case Challenging His Rule“. On Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez
December 28, 2007. Pakistan in Turmoil after Benazir Bhutto’s Assassination. On Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez
February 19, 2008. “Pakistan: Opposition Parties Win Majority“. WBEZ Worldview with Jerome McDonald
June 27, 2008. “The Wahhabisation of Pakistan“, Comment is Free, The Guardian.
August 18, 2008. Musharraf resignation and Pakistan’s future. WBEZ Worldview with Jerome McDonald.
February 18, 2009. (with Sanjeev Bery)”US Policies Have Weakened Pakistani Civilian Rule” San Jose Mercury News.
February 16, 2009. Pakistani Goverment Agrees to Islamic Law In The Swat Valley Region. WBEZ Worldview with Jerome McDonald
March 30, 2009. President Obama’s speech about Afghanistan. WBEZ Worldview with Jerome McDonald
May 7, 2009. Manan Ahmed on the Politics of US “Hysteria” over Pakistan. On Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez
May 8, 2009. “Legends of the Fail”, The National, UAE. PDF
June 12, 2009. “State of Decay,” The National, UAE. PDF
June 24, 2009. Violence in Pakistan, WBEZ Worldview with Jerome McDonald
Nov 6, 2009. “Start a War,” The National, UAE. PDF
Nov 9, 2009. “Paranoia over Pakistan,” The Nation. PDF
Dec 4, 2009. “All Round View: A review of Christopher Sandford’s Imran Khan,” The National, UAE. PDF
February 18, 2010. “Strict interpretations: A reply to Atiya Khan“, Platypus Review20. PDF
March 12, 2010. “Down to Brasstacks,” The National, UAE. PDF
April 16, 2010. “Ghost Wars,” The National, UAE.
April 25, 2010. “The Rest is History,” The Express Tribune, Pakistan. PDF
June 13, 2010. “House on the Hill“, The Express Tribune, Pakistan. PDF
July 7, 2010. “Zaid Hamid: The “Glenn Beck of Pakistan”, WBEZ Worldview with Jerome McDonald
July 24, 2010. “Letter from Berlin,” The Express Tribune, Pakistan.
September 3, 2010. “Failures of Imagination,” The National, UAE.PDF
September 9, 2010. “If you have understanding, then why this hubhub?“, The Express Tribune, Pakistan. PDF
December 17, 2010. “Recall America’s Imperial Past: A Review of Robert D. Kaplan’s Monsoon,” The National, UAE. PDF
February 1, 2011. “Forfeiting the Future: On Salmaan Taseer’s Death,” The Caravan India. PDF
March 4, 2011. “Flying Blind: US foreign policy’s lack of expertise,” The National, UAE. PDF
March 22, 2011. “Blind spots of history,” Pakistan Today, Pakistan. PDF
June 1, 2011. “Ways of Seeing,” The Caravan India. PDF
July 17, 2011. “A nation’s fugue state,” Dawn, Pakistan. PDF
August 11, 2011. “Pakistan: why the US must think outside the military box,”, The National UAE. page 1, page 2
August 21, 2011. “All is well…or is it?,” Dawn, Pakistan. PDF
October 3, 2011. “Explaining Pakistan“, WBEZ Worldview with Jerome McDonald
November 1, 2011. “All the Myriad Ways,” The Caravan India. PDF
January 15, 2012. “Postcard from Kashmir“, The Sunday Guardian. PDF
March 29, 2012. “A Life in Words: Memoirs by Ismat Chughtai,” Timeout Mumbai. PDF
June 27, 2012. “Timothy McVeigh and our ‘Buried History,’” The Margins, Asian American Writers’ Workshop. PDF
March 1, 2013. “How To Do Empire Right?“, The Caravan India. PDF
March 28, 2013. “The State Shall Remain Nameless,” The State, vol IV, Dubai, U.A.E. PDF
May 10, 2013. “Pakistan’s Tyrannical Majority,” The New York Times, New York, USA. PDF
September 27, 2013. “A Stranger on Lennox Avenue,” The New York Times, New York, USA. PDF
February 2014, “What is the most iconic speech given in Pakistan and why?” The Herald, Pakistan. PDF
July 14, 2014, “Spectators of the Orient: Kara Walker and a History of White Americans Gawking at Black and Brown Bodies,” Pacific Standard. PDF
January 8, 2015, “A Matriarch in Exile,” Public Books. PDF
July 1, 2015, “Between The Lines: Excavating the many histories of Partition,” The Caravan India. PDF
August, 2017, “Freeing History: How to counter colonial myths about Muslim arrival in Sindh”. Dawn Pakistan.”PDF
October 2018, “Rock of Faith,” Herald, Pakistan. PDF