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Uncle Sohail’s Second Wife  

For one odd, brief, and singular moment, the catastrophes of my family and my country had come together, showing me how they were woven together, knotted and inextricable. . . .

An excerpt from The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan.





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Divorcing the Drones  

Click here to read the rest of our election symposium. All the talk in Pakistan in the weeks before the U.S election was about divorce. The question posed to the two candidates in the last presidential debate—“Is it time for …