Pakistan currently finds itself in a precarious situation – keeping itself afloat amidst a pandemic. The notion that the state is also inflicted with a fledgling economy, a weak healthcare infrastructure and a divided leadership, doesn’t do much to help the situation. In early February, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health Dr Zafar Mirza […]
Author Archives: Neha Maqsood
The writer is a Pakistani journalist whose writings on race, religion, Indo-Pak relations and global feminism have been published by Media Diversified, Metro UK, Women Under Seige and various other sites. Her poetry, too, has been featured and is forthcoming in over 20 literary journals and magazines, including Strange Horizons, Gutter Magazine, Marble Poetry, Abridged and Nightingale & Sparrow. In 2019, she was the recipient of the Black Bough Poetry Readers Award. For her efforts in tackling discrimination against people of colour in Britain, she was featured in the 100 Bristol BME Powerlist and Rife Magazines’ 24 Under 24 List for 2019. She tweets @maqsood_neha (https://twitter.com/maqsood_neha).