), is a left-liberal Pakistani journalist, cultural critic
, satirist and short story
writer.
His father, Farooq Paracha, was a Socialist journalist hailing from the Attock District
(Makhad
) in the north of the Punjab
and a staunch supporter of the Pakistan Peoples Party
(PPP).
Nadeem F. Paracha received his early education at the Kabul
American School in Afghanistan from 1970 till 1974.
Art should not be an excuse to fulfil material bourgeois desires.
Either I'm just too paranoid or this is just my way of now playing the sardonic court jester instead of the "angry young man" who once actually believed in the logic and persuasive power of cohesive literary narratives as a means to bring about change.
I believe it is an act of delusion to look for (or more so), discover a so-called "educated" preacher/evangelist. Thus, no evangelist/preacher can be better than the other. But I agree, they can be worse.
I'd rather fight for a tree than die for a God.
My neighbour's dog told me to write this.
Thank you for a desperate lesson in anal retentive economics, Ahmed. In future I promise to be a bit more sympathetic to the mindless drones of yuppies.
Yes ... and I shot Kennedy too, apart from asking Ali Azmat|Ali Azmat and Salman Ahmed|Salman Ahmed to pick up my laundry bills.