Bareeha Fatima

Na Naya Na Purana Hamara Pakistan Sounds good… No? Now allow me to ask a question… Where’s our fellow Mudassir Naaru and all others? When will they come back? This could be a little step towards building “Hamara Pakistan”

Safia Hayat’s poem ‘Athri Tay Baghi Aurat’ x an excerpt from Gloria Anzaldua’s essay ‘Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd World Women Writers.’

Fantastic new journal with @CambridgeCore now accepting articles!! Edited by Matthew A. Cook, North Carolina Central University, USA Kamran Ali, UT Austin, USA Michel Boivin, CNRS-CEIAS, France Amina Yaqin, University of Exeter, UK

'your father was fluent in four languages. you're illiterate in the tongues of your father.' Partition by Fatimah Asghar.

@DeTrop_ This is so beautiful. 💜

Another day on strike, another great turn out by our @aberdeen_ucu members, standing strong & demanding a better offer from UCEA #ucuRISING

Sachal turns 5 today. He has spent another year going to court hearings, meetings with govt officials & protests, but the State has repeatedly failed to offer him the gift of truth, let alone hope & justice. If you find a moment today, please raise your voice to #FindNaaruAlive

“Hope will not be executed” reads protest sign at the university of Tehran.

@_Iusta I was listening to this particular mushaira just last night and thinking similar things... Wonderfully surreal to come across your thread.

The world gets to tell its stories. Time and again, we hear them to the exclusion of our own. Give our stories a chance, too. They remain real and they remain ours - even if you try to kill them before they are told. #ReleaseJoyland

Albert Camus wrote a letter to an estranged German friend in 1943: “I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don’t want any greatness for it, particularly a greatness born of blood and falsehood. I want to keep it alive by keeping justice alive.”

And it's only by remembering and repeating these stories that we 'refuse to disappear.' The case is not closed. Not until we #FindNaaruAlive, not until they #ReleaseAllMissingPersons, not until they #EndEnforcedDisappearnces and not until those responsible are held accountable.

#MissingPersons are not mere statistics. They are real people who have real lives, just like yours and mine, and they have families & friends who are waiting for them. These are glimpses of the story of just one family but there are thousands more of these families in Pakistan.

Journalist/Poet #MudassarNaaru disappeared on 20 Aug 2018. His son, Sachal, was 6 months old at the time. In one of our conversations in the months that followed, his wife #SadafChugtai said: "I hope Naaru returns before Sachal notices his absence..."