Granta 112: Pakistan
Filled with almost 200 million people speaking nearly sixty languages, brought into nationhood under the auspices of a single religion, but wracked with deep separatist fissures and the destabilizing forces of ongoing conflicts in Iran, Afghanistan and Kashmir, Pakistan is one of the most dynamic places in the world today.
Untitled, 2005, by Mahbub Shah, courtesy of Green Cardamom (paper collage 24.5 x 17.5 cm). © Mahbub Shah
Fiction
Jamil Ahmad The Sins of the Mother
Nadeem Aslam Leila in the Wilderness
Mohsin Hamid A Beheading
Mohammed Hanif Butt & Bhatti
Uzma Aslam Khan Ice, Mating
Reportage
Lorraine Adams with Ayesha Nasir The Trials of Faisal Shahzad
Fatima Bhutto Mangho Pir
Basharat Peer Kashmir’s Forever War
Jane Perlez Portrait of Jinnah
Declan Walsh Arithmetic on the Frontier
Memoir
Intizar Hussain The House by the Gallows
Aamer Hussein Restless
Sarfraz Manzoor White Girls
Kamila Shamsie Pop Idols
Poetry
Hasina Gul Life and Time
Yasmeen Hameed PK 754
Daniyal Mueenuddin Trying Tripe
Art
High Noon: A special collaboration with Green Cardamom, showcasing the work of fourteen Pakistani contemporary artists
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MEMOIR
Six Snapshots of Partition by John Siddique. ‘Faizal carries his wife in his pocket: she is a white handkerchief...’
FICTION
Saadat Hasan Manto’s ‘The Dog of Ṭeṭvāl’, in a new translation by Aatish Taseer
ANIMATION
Caco Neves’ video interpretation of our issue’s themes and artwork
INTERVIEWS
The National Language: Uzma Aslam Khan and Aamer Hussein on Urdu language and literature.
ESSAYS
‘Road to Chitral’: Azhar Abidi meets Colonel Kushwaqt-al-Mulk, and meditates on Pakistan’s cycle of violence
‘Power Failure’: Bina Shah on the forces behind Karachi’s electricity crisis
...READ ALSO
How to Write About Pakistan: four of our contributors show you the ropes. PLUS Nadeem Aslam’s more sober reflection on the same questions, ‘Where to Begin’; also read his piece from the archive, ‘God and Me’.
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ARTWORK FROM THE ISSUE
A selection of contemporary Pakistani artwork from our collaboration with Green Cardamom. Plus the cover of the issue, a special commission made to Pakistani truck artist Islam Gull
Also from the print edition:
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Life and Time
Poem
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Kashmir’s Forever War
The cost of conflict
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Pop Idols
The Zia years and ‘Dil Dil Pakistan’
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A Beheading
New fiction
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Leila in the Wilderness
A tale of star-crossed love
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PK 754
Poem
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Portrait of Jinnah
Creating the Pakistani state
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The Sins of the Mother
New fiction
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Arithmetic on the Frontier
Amwar Kamal’s re-election campaign
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Mangho Pir
Fatima Bhutto visits Karachi
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Trying Tripe
Poem
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Ice, Mating
Pakistani ice mating
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The Trials of Faisal Shahzad
The life of Faisal Shahzad
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Restless
Relocating: Karachi to London.
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White Girls
A Pakistani-Briton's obsession
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Butt and Bhatti
Love on the Arabian Sea
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The House by the Gallows