Miranda Husain
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All Immy needs for Christmas is a Sat Nav
If only young Immy had thought of it. The very instant those luxury cars had been auctioned was the time to make a canny investment. In the shape of a Sat Nav. Of course, to the untrained eye, this might look a lot like shutting the stable door after the buffalo have already been sold … → Read More
The un-reluctant fundamentalists
Boris Johnson is on cunning form. Getting off his bike to swoop down like the caring-and-sharing politician that everyone — and their cat — knows him not to be. Beseeching Britain to do the decent thing and offer Aasia Bibi asylum. That’s all it took. For Theresa May and Sajid Javid to almost both fall … → Read More
Of Immy, Asia Bibi and feminism
No sooner had the man formerly known as His Imminence arrived, then did he lose his footing to stumble and fall. Though never once dropping that weighted begging bowl; without which he never dared leave home. What better way for a former sportsman to incorporate a fitness regime in to his new helicopter lifestyle that … → Read More
Sugar in a plum, plum plum
Sitting cross-legged in a small circle on the playground, we must have been no more than about seven years old. A rare English summer. In as much as the sun had been shining all day long. Which meant that we were all dressed in our PE kit: shorts and aertex top. A brief reprieve from … → Read More
Taking on the far-right in Britland
Theresa May’s government is in a bit of a pickle. And for once not because BoJo the clown has been caught with his hand stuck firmly in the Brexit cookie jar; scavenging around for a spare $100 million per week for the NHS. Little compensation, really, considering how he had promised that exiting the EU … → Read More
Ahed Tamimi — the face of Palestinian resistance
The lives of Palestinian children don’t matter. The same is true of their security as well as their physical safety. For those who live under the ongoing military occupation are robbed of not only land and water — but also of their sentient. Sixteen-year-old Ahed Tamimi is the latest child to bear the brunt of … → Read More
It’s still very much a man’s world
Nothing crosses the manufactured East-West culture divide quite like women speaking out against misogyny and sexual violence. Sadly, this is not because the world sits up and listens intently to women; allowing them to complete their sentences uninterrupted. That really would be asking for a bit too much. But, rather, in terms of the rush … → Read More
A very hard country
I had been lounging on the sofa with my cats. I’m not sure why I had decided to work from home that day. Other than, of course, the obvious: so that I could spend some quality time with my two little furry divas. Then a ping on my phone interrupted my best attempts at cajoling … → Read More
Why linking Kashmir to Palestine is a smart move
The Army chief played a strategic hand when he linked Palestine to Kashmir. That it came in the wake of reports of the US warning Islamabad to “play safe” in the aftermath of Trump Town’s Jerusalem shuffle – sent a strong signal to Washington as to who has the upper hand in the bilateral relationship. … → Read More
Armistice Day and the hierarchy of grief
On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month; or possibly a few hours later, certain quarters of the British media erupted over veteran journalist Robert Fisk’s ‘tribute’ to Armistice Day. He had once gain dared to berate the not-so-innocent poppy that has long been an emotive emblem of blood spilled during … → Read More
What the CIA dump about Bin Laden and Iran means for Pakistan
The timing for Pakistan couldn’t be better. In a week where the US Secretary of State has handed over a list of 20 terror groups said to be operating within this country’s borders — the CIA has come to Pakistan’s defence over harbouring the world’s most wanted man. It says that we didn’t. Or rather, … → Read More
‘You say you want a revolution . . .’
No sooner was I in the taxi, then the driver turned to me and began asking if I spoke Dari. He seemed rather disinclined to believe me when I told him, no. But he was a cheery soul and as we began to make our way through the drizzly streets of Islamabad he began to … → Read More
India and the world’s rape problem
India has a rape problem. That much, we all know. Yet it was all supposed to change following the case of Jyoti Singh, the young physiotherapy student who was brutally and quite literally raped to death back in 2012. Then, India appeared united, saying no more and never again. Here, on this side of the … → Read More
Tillerson and the hoodwinking of Afghanistan
Pakistan needs to stop playing to the cheap seats. If for no other reason than it no longer needs to, not when Afghanistan has taken on the role so well. There. That would signal a significant shift in this country’s relationship vis-à-vis the South Asia security paradigm. Though likely not in the way that the … → Read More
Sadiq Khan — earning his GQ award
The London Mayor is today calling for a second vote in the event that Parliament blocks Brexit. Which is fair enough, really Sadiq Khan, it must be said, scrubs up well. There he was on the cover of GQ looking neither shaken nor stirred after the magazine had named him Politician Of The Year last … → Read More
War on the Pakistan girl child
In Pakistan, the Girl Child constantly finds herself battling the forces that would wage war on her. All of which seek the same thing: to rob her of a childhood. The hurly burly macho men of the Taliban tell her that she can’t go to school. And if she doesn’t listen they will bomb the … → Read More
Rochdale Asian Sex Gang
As a small child, the very worst thing that I could ever imagine was something happening to our dog, Siby. Bedtime would, occasionally, involve trying to frighten myself to sleep after ‘lights out’; if that is, Enid Blyton wasn’t doing the trick with her tales of midnight feasts and apple pie beds. Diving under the … → Read More
Trump and circumstance
It was a scene that would not be out of place on the Real Housewives of ISIS, the satirical BBC sketch show aired at the beginning of the year. Picture this: amid the snide comments about who wears a suicide vest the best — the camera flips to zoom in on an American president’s meeting with a couple of Moscow reps looking to buy some goodies on the black market. The president, in a bid to… → Read More
Le Pen and the pig farmer
Poor Marine Le Pen. Fabricated thoughts of how France is not yet ready to be ruled by a woman will be of little comfort. Especially as the man who robbed her of the chance to finally outshine her father was not even contesting this election. He was not even French. Zut alors! That particular honour goes to Britain’s most infamous pig farmer, a man by the name of Dave. A man who, during his… → Read More
Bloody spot on Pakistan’s media
Consider the scene. A man with untold blood on his hands finds himself in the state’s warm embrace. The military establishment, keen to keep his head firmly pressed to its bosom where it belongs, has gone the extra mile. With a single swoosh of its magic wand, which comes in a rather dashing little khaki-camouflage number, Pakistan’s security set-up has demonstrated its rather progressive side.… → Read More