Status Updates From Granta 112: Pakistan

This is so well written and so well curated — even 13 years after it was published — that it made me subscribe to Granta

'A beheading': just when you think the violence cannot get any more sickening, a first person account.

"As a religious man, he conceded, this was problematic. Islam did not sit well with Pastunwali's obligations to violent revenge." - maybe Trump should have looked at this angle when he was formulating his travel ban.

"and I said, "Bastard! Get that ack-ack and fire back!"'' - when I watched 'East is East' I assumed George Khan 's enthusiasm for calling his offspring 'Bastard' was due to him learning English informally. It seems it's a standard term of address in Pakistan.