Nadeem F. Paracha

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Nadeem Farooq Paracha
Born
Nadeem Farooq Paracha

6 February 1967
Karachi
Other namesNadeem F. Paracha
OccupationJournalist
Years active1987– present

Nadeem Farooq Paracha (Urdu : ندیم فاروق پراچہ), also known as NFP, [1] [2] is a Pakistani journalist, [3] [4] author, cultural critic, satirist, [5] and historian. [6] [7] [8] He is a columnist for Pakistan's largest English-language daily Dawn. [9] [10]

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Career

He is the author of eight books on the social and political history of Pakistan. These include The Pakistan Anti-Hero , End of the Past, and Points of Entry. His sixth book The Reluctant Republic was published in November 2021. [11] On August 11, 2022, Paracha’s seventh book For Faith, State and the Soul was launched. The book is a history of popular culture in Pakistan. It is being considered Paracha’s most ambitious work. In April 2023, Imran Khan: Myth of the Pakistani Middle-Class was published. It is one of the first books to explore the political career of Imran Khan. In the book, Paracha details the rise and slide of Khan's politics. [12]

Paracha is also a Research Scholar and Reagan-Fascell Fellow at the International Forum for Democratic Studies in Washington DC, [13] and a consultant for Adcom Leo Burnett Worldwide. [14]

Paracha graduated from the Karachi Grammar School in 1983. [15] He then joined a state-owned college in Karachi, where he became a Marxist student leader. After college, he became a journalist and was often considered to be a socialist. However, over the last decade, he has often described himself as a Muslim modernist, a progressive Pakistani nationalist, and a democrat. He is also a harsh critic of postmodernism and is staunchly against the mixing of religion with politics. [16] [17]

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References

  1. ↑ Ali, Sobia; Raja, Raza Habib (13 November 2011). "An Interview With Nadeem F. Paracha". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
  2. ↑ "Nadeem Paracha". National Endowment for Democracy. 6 March 2018. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
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  5. ↑ Dewey, Caitlin (12 October 2013). "Pakistani satire of Malala conspiracy theories taken as real conspiracy theory". The Washington Post . ISSN   0190-8286 . Retrieved 10 June 2022.
  6. ↑ "An Interview With Nadeem F. Paracha". Dawn .
  7. ↑ "Profile of Nadeem F. Paracha". awaztoday.
  8. ↑ "Nadeem F. Paracha". pakistantimes.
  9. ↑ Paracha, Nadeem F. (2 February 2017). "Pakistan: The lesser-known histories of an ancient land". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
  10. ↑ "News stories for Nadeem F. Paracha - DAWN.COM". www.dawn.com. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
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  12. ↑ Raja, Raza Habib (19 July 2023). "Of Leaders, Mythology And The Pakistani Middle Class". The Friday Times . Retrieved 20 July 2023.
  13. ↑ "Has Freedom of Expression Become A Self-Parody? Examples from Pakistan's Social Media". NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY. 19 June 2018. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
  14. ↑ "Effie Pakistan - We are honored to introduce Mr. Nadeem Farooq Paracha from Adcom Leo Burnett on the Jury Panel for The Effie Awards 2020. #EffieWorldwide #EffiePakistan #RiseAbove Pakistan Advertisers Society | Facebook". www.facebook.com. 2 February 2020. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
  15. ↑ "Remembering Karachi Grammar School as it completes 175 years". THE NEWS INTERNATIONAL. 22 July 2022. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
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  17. ↑ "The Real Pakistani Identity Is Nothing Close To What The State Peddles".



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