Posts By Khawar Khan Achakzai
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348CommentaryThe hundredth cardiac: At the edge of mortality, a doctor confronts what remains
From the violence of breaking ribs to the strange silence after a pulse returns, one doctor confronts how repeated encounters with death...
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361HistoryAn inheritance called Kashmir: The valley that lived as memory inside Manto
Kashmiri diaspora spread across the plains of Punjab carried the memory of the Valley from one generation to the next. Though Saadat...
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1.0KHistoryHow Kashmiri monks transformed Buddhist thought in China
Kashmiri monks and scholars carried Buddhist philosophy, texts and learning across the Silk Route to help shape Chinese Buddhism. The valley of...
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2.2KPoetryFrom Qalb to Inquilaab: How Kashmir became central to Faiz’s life and work
Faiz Ahmad Faiz was not only one of the greatest poets of the Urdu language, but he was the language unto himself....
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2.4KCommentaryAlgorithm of distraction: Kashmir Instagram and the death of thought
I woke up early in the morning to activate my Instagram for the weekend. I had deactivated it only yesterday. Partly in...
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1.9KHistoryForgotten tiles of Harwan: The story of how Kashmir holds many ancient worlds
سب کہاں کچھ لالہ و گل میں نمایاں ہو گئیں خاک میں کیا صورتیں ہوں گی کہ پنہاں ہو گئیں Not everything...
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2.2KBooksWhat Kashmir read in 2025: Books that moved hand to hand, heart to heart
The year 2025 in Kashmir was like any other year in Kashmir: full of rumours, expectations and disappointments. What kept Kashmiris going...
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2.2KDrug Abuse‘My life is over’: A mother, a son, and Kashmir’s drug crisis devouring lives
A doctor meets with a drug addict at his hospital in Srinagar. In the conversation between the two reproduced below, some chilling...
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2.4KCultureHow a Kashmiri tale of love became a Soviet anthem of unity
Rashidov Sharof was a prominent Uzbek politician, diplomat, and public intellectual. He was the first secretary of the Communist Party of Soviet...
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1.9KCommentaryIqbal and the making of muslim political modernity
The political decline of the Mughal, Ottoman and Safavid Empires in the eighteenth century did not signal a period of cultural and...
