SMOKERS’ CORNER: REWRITING THE PAKISTAN NARRATIVE

Illustration by Abro Introduced by the Imran Khan administration (2018-2022), the controversial Single National Curriculum (SNC) represented a final institutional attempt to preserve a state-curated national narrative dating back to the 1970s. By the 2010s, this identity framework had begun to fracture under the weight of escalating sectarian violence, unprecedented Islamist terrorism and fraying civil-military relations. The Islamist violence intensified alongside growing political fric...

By none@none.com (Nadeem F. Paracha)