2011
"Why they get Pakistan wrong", on Pakistan and America and books by Zahid Hussain and Anatol Lieven, from: The New York Review of Books
"The perils of tribalism", on perspectives 10 years after the 9/11 attacks, from: the Princeton Alumni Weekly
"Silencing Pakistan", on the murder of journalist Saleem Shahzad and the importance of free speech in Pakistan, from: the Express Tribune
"On writing The Reluctant Fundamentalist", about interactivity in books, my issues with borders, and constructing my first two novels, from: the Guardian
"Osama bin Laden's death", about implications for and reactions in Pakistan, from: the Guardian
"Once upon a life", about moving between San Francisco and Lahore in my childhood and becoming a writer, from: the Observer
"Uniting Pakistan’s minority and majority", about responding to the killing of Pakistan's only Christian federal minister, from: the Express Tribune
"The game preserve", about the Raymond Davis affair and a Pakistan where extremists are nurtured and the hunt monetized, from: Dawn (reprinted in the Guardian)
2010
"Discontent and its civilizations", about violence and the illusion of civilizations, from: the International Herald Tribune
"Pereira transforms", about reading Antonio Tabucchi's novel, in an introduction to its new edition, from: Pereira Maintains (reprinted in the Guardian)
"Confronting hypocrisy", about the need for secularism in Pakistan, from: Dawn
"Pakistan's challenge", about responding to the floods, from: Dawn
"It is feverish and flooded but Pakistan can yet thrive", about hope despite the floods, from: the Financial Times
"The real problem in the Afghan war is India, Pakistan and Kashmir", about the regional aspect of peace, from: the Washington Post
"On fatherhood", about becoming a baby person, from: Paper magazine
"Fear and silence", about the persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan, from: Dawn
"Paying for Pakistan", about the need for a tax revolution, from: Dawn
"Pakistani is enough", about moving beyond a preoccupation with national identity, from: Dawn
"Room for optimism", about positive signs for Pakistan, from: Dawn
"Avatar in Lahore",
about arriving in Pakistan, getting broadband, and going to see the
movie, from: TAR magazine (reprinted in Five Dials)
2009
"It had to be a sign", about moving back to Pakistan after eight years in London, from: the Guardian
"When Updike saved me from Morrison (and myself)", about learning to write in college, from: the Daily Princetonian
"Art and the other Pakistans", about growing up in Lahore and Asia Society New York's Pakistani art exhibition, from: Hanging Fire
"A beginning", about President Obama's Cairo speech on Muslim-U.S. relations, from: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
"Pakistan's army needs to choose sides", about the importance of fighting the Taliban, from: the Guardian
"Flailing, but not yet failing", about Pakistan moving away from tyranny, from: the International Herald Tribune
"Shaped by popular will", about representativeness and Pakistan's Chief Justice, from: the Guardian
"Bend toward justice", about recommendations for president Obama, from: the Princeton Alumni Weekly
2008
"Bound by sorrows", about the Mumbai terrorist attacks and India-Pakistan relations, from: the Guardian
"Slumberland", about the novel by Paul Beatty, from: the Financial Times
"Pakistan is finding its voice", about democracy's difficult implications for America, from: the Guardian
"End of a beginning", about Pakistan after Musharraf's resignation, from: Time magazine (Asian edition)
"Everyone wants to leave", about immigration, emigration, and property in Britain, from: the Guardian
"Again become my home", about Pakistan's election, taxes, and life in London, from: the Guardian
"A moment of hope", about the results of Pakistan's election, from: Time magazine (Asian edition)
"It's troubled, but it's home", about Benazir Bhutto's assassination and Pakistan, from: the Washington Post
2007
"Pakistan's crackdown", about unacceptable arrests of peaceful citizens, from: NPR Morning Edition (link to audio version)
"Why the compromise collapsed", about the declaration of emergency in Pakistan, from: Time magazine
"Having a British passport", about being a dual Pakistani-British citizen, from: the Guardian
"After 60 years, will Pakistan be reborn?", about Pakistan on its 60th anniversary, from: the New York Times
"Why do they hate us?", about reasons for anti-Americanism and possible responses, from: the Washington Post
"Britain and America's overstated threat from within", about excessive fear of Muslims, from: the Huffington Post
"Pakistan's moment of truth", about the implications of deadly clashes over the Chief Justice, from: Time magazine (Asian edition)
"My reluctant fundamentalist", about writing the novel, from: Powells.com
"Pakistan's silent majority is not to be feared", about the need for greater democracy, from: the New York Times
"The British inquisition", about becoming a UK citizen, from: the Independent
"General Pervez Musharraf: Pakistan's big beast unleashed", about Pakistan and its President's autobiography, from: the Independent
2006
"Mohammed Ali Jinnah", about the founder of Pakistan for a series on 60 years of Asian heroes, from: Time magazine (Asian edition)
"Down the tube", about a personal moment of paranoia on the London underground in the age of terrorism, from: the Independent
"A home for water lilies" (published as "I love this dirty town"), about moving to London, from: the New Statesman
"Divided we fall", about the killing of Nawab Bugti and the need to restore democracy in Pakistan, from: Time magazine (Asian edition)
2005
"Two steps forward, one step back", about Pakistan and personal freedoms, from: Time magazine (Asian edition)
"I answer the phone", about artist Shahzia Sikander, from: 51 Ways of Looking
2004
"An agenda for Pakistan", about democracy and Pakistan, from: Time magazine (Asian edition)
"Waiting for the boom", about a visit to the Pakistani port of Gwadar, from: Time magazine (Asian edition)
"Reinventing Pakistan", about the art and media boom in Lahore, from: Smithsonian magazine
"In praise of the un-macho", about the anniversary of the Friday Times, from: the Friday Times
"Nuclear reaction", about the Khan proliferation scandal and Pakistan, from: Time magazine (Asian edition)
2003
"The pathos of exile", about returning to Lahore for a cousin's wedding, from: Time magazine (Asian edition)
"We're all on the same side", about defining Muslims exclusively by their faith, from: Time magazine (Asian edition)
"Gunning for war", about the injustice of America's planned war in Iraq, from: Time magazine (Asian edition)
2001
"Fearing a second abandonment", about Pakistan and the war in Afghanistan, from: the Guardian
"The usual ally", about Pakistan's alliance with America and the coming war in Afghanistan, from: Time magazine
"Lives: the countdown", about family in Islamabad awaiting the coming war in Afghanistan, from: the New York Times magazine
"In concert, no touching", about a restrained but erotic encounter in Lahore, from: Nerve magazine
2000
"Changing of the guard", about peace and a new generation in Pakistan, from: Dawn
"Siamese twins never embrace", about Kashmir and the India-Pakistan dispute, from: Outlook India
"Lives: international relations", about a love letter and applying for an Italian visa, from: the New York Times magazine
"Where chaos foils ambition", about President Clinton's upcoming trip to Pakistan, from: the New York Times
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