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Liberalism’s Stage Directions

                 “The truth is rarely pure and never simple”                           —Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays.                                             Penguin Classics, 2000, p. 293. It began with a slip—not of the tongue, but of an unguarded conscience. At a campaign rally in…

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Mahrang Baloch: The Epitome of Courage

We often study figures of resistance in history books—people who became symbols of their time, etched into memory by the scale of their defiance. But sometimes, history walks among us. Sometimes, it wears the face of someone you’ve seen on the street, marching beside you. For many of us, Mahrang Baloch is not just a…

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I come from a land without a voice

I come from a land without a voice, But where silence speaks louder than war. On our morning walks, we pick flowers, On our way home, we place them on graves. Evening comes, heavy with the sound of guns, Yet the wind rises to wipe it away. Still, the scars remain—etched on walls, Written in…

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For Whom the Door Remains Ever Open

The Land of Disappearances and Mass Graves  In Balochistan, loss is not always marked by funerals. Some families never get to bury their loved ones, never receive a body, never know what happened. Their pain remains in the unanswered calls, the uneaten meals, the empty spaces in gatherings, and the doors that are never closed,…

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