Like many of my friends in the Pakistani diaspora - and many of my friends in Pakistan itself, for that matter - I have sometimes looked at the country of my birth and wondered whether its future will...
A couple that was long and unhappily married, a couple that made out of opportunities for joy, misery.
You're never rude,' she said, smiling, 'and I think it's good to be touchy sometimes. It means you care.
What did I think of Princeton? Well, the answer to that question requires a story. When I first arrived, I looked around me at the Gothic buildings — younger, I later learned, than many of the mosques...
It seemed to me then - and to be honest, sir, seems to me still - that America was engaged only in posturing. As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with thos...
I was, in my own eyes, a veritable James Bond — only younger, darker, and possibly better paid.
I love it when you talk about where you come from, she said, slipping her arm through mine, you become so alive.
One's rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.
It has been said that depression is a failure to imagine a plausible desirable future for oneself, and, not just in Marin, but in the whole region, in the Bay Area, and in many other places too, place...
I just gritted my teeth, took out a needle, and worked him out of my heart like a splinter.
For we were not always burdened by debt, dependent on foreign aid and handouts; in the stories we tell of ourselves we were not the crazed and destitute radicals you see on your television channels bu...
A common strand appeared to unite these conflicts, and that was the advancement of a small coterie’s concept of American interests in the guise of the fight against terrorism, which was defined to ref...
And all sorts of strange people were around, people who looked more at home than she was, even the homeless ones who spoke no English, more at home maybe because they were younger, and when she went o...
Television has given Pakistan a truly open national forum for the first time in its history. Ideas are debated, leaders are assessed and criticised, and a nation of 170 million people is finally disco...
The end of a couple is like a death, and the notion of death, of temporariness, can remind us of the value of things,
Muscularity, made more pronounced by her gauntness, and the near-inanimate
You're a watchful guy. You know where that comes from? I shook my head. It comes from feeling out of place, he said. Believe me. I know
Saeed and Nadia knew what the buildup to conflict felt like, and so the feeling that hung over London was not new to them, and they faced it not with bravery, exactly, and not with panic either, not m...
Many parents were strict, and sometimes weeks would pass without us being able to meet those we thought of as our girlfriends. So we learned to savor the denial of gratification—that most un-American...
It leaves space for your thoughts to echo