I miss Pakistan.

X said on the phone “Pakistan is a memory; I don’t yearn for it”.

I do yearn for it.

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The three entries here are ordered as follows: March 19th, 2024; August 29th, 2022; and June 11th, 2021.

*NOTE: Why am I posting my journal entries? See my inaugural post: Beyond journalism

I am finding it increasingly necessary to publish work that would not be accepted as “traditional journalism”. I want to publish some of my journal entries. I want people to have access to my voice, my non-journalistic voice, the voice that is known by very few, and within those few, only selected accounts of that voice. I want to do this because, as a journalist, I think people must know who I am. They must know who they are entrusting with their truth, their narrative, their person. They must know who will carry their reality into written record - historical record - for the world to know.

(*artwork by Incé Husain)