King's Geography King's Global Affairs Prof Nausheen H Anwar My article on Lahore mob. The point is to provoke a conversation around Pakistani masculinities, their toxicity and their corrosive impact upon not just women’s lives, but worse on men’s mental and physical well being. thefridaytimes.com/27-Feb-2024/cl…

After the police left, the students reclaimed their campus and gathered together for the planned peaceful teach-in. The massive police presence and arrest of dozens of students was so unnecessary.

There's no drinking water in Sargodha. The acidic water from the ground & gutter has led to skin and eyes infections. We can hardly wash our faces let alone shower or cook. Please help us.

A member of the Prog­ressive Students Colle­ctive (PSC) shouted this statement, interrupting the German ambassador’s ad­d­­ress on human rights at the Asma Jahangir Confe­rence org­a­nised in Lahore last week. By Sarah Eleazar #FreePalestine #psc dawn.com/news/1831331

#StudentsAndRightToProtest Read this enlightening piece by Respected Sarah Eleazar Footprints: Students, not security threats dawn.com/news/1831331

NEW: UT Austin’s Faculty Council passed a new resolution this morning on the "responses to on-campus protests." 62% voted yes, 21% voted no and 17% abstained. It calls for more transparency from UT over the decision to call in Texas DPS and amnesty for UT-affiliated protesters.

Kids stealing shoes after a Christian man accused of blasphemy was lynched by a mob - this is where the powers that be have brought Pakistan. A lot of things that we talk about regularly on The Pakistan Experience seem abstract to a lot of people but this clip perfectly

6 basic things wrong with blasphemy law 295C

Arshad Nadeem will begin his hunt for an elusive #Olympics medal at 3pm PST. On a sweltering day late June, I spent sometime with him to learn what makes him the athlete he is, and more importantly, the person he is. This is his story. For Al Jazeera English AJE Sport.

No one’s ready for this conversation but having done my time in the Gulf, I couldn’t think of a worse place to live. It’s amazing hearing the adhaan, earning tax free money and being closer to the equator. Just not when it’s at the cost of witnessing migrant workers (1/5)

At the Conf. on South Asia 2024, some of the contributors to the Society for Cultural Anthropology #hotspots on ‘Majoritarian Politics in South Asia’ (2021) convened to revisit their essays and thoughts in a double panel. The issue was edited by Radhika Govindrajan, Mubbashir Rizvi and Bhoomika Joshi culanth.org/fieldsights/se…

And Sanober Umar highlighted the precarity of urban citizenship among Muslims in Lucknow. In the second panel Arsalan Khan examined the politics of blasphemy and the recrafting of religiosity with reference to the Tablighi Jamaat in Pakistan.