Riaz Laghari

Crisis is not only experienced—it is constructed. In Pakistan, moments of national emergency are framed less by facts a…

In Pakistan’s judicial landscape, silence often speaks loudest. From politically sensitive disqualifications to militar…

Political leadership in South Asia is a performance steeped not only in policy but in linguistic expectations shaped by…

Martyrdom in Pakistan is not just an act—it is a discourse. From school textbooks to Friday sermons, from televised com…

Surveillance in the digital age does not arrive only with cameras, drones, and firewalls—it comes encoded in language. …

In an age of speech restriction and narrative control, resistance in Pakistan has increasingly turned to the visual and…

Loyalty in Pakistan’s political culture is rarely abstract—it is constructed, curated, and communicated through languag…

Development, in Pakistan, is less an outcome than an utterance—a performative speech act woven into political manifesto…

In an era increasingly mediated by digital platforms, history is no longer preserved solely in dusty archives—it is cur…