All pieces below are uncensored (and, often times, unedited). Links to their flayed and bloodied published versions are at the beginning of each article.
Dawn
Amendment 27: the death of justice – 6 November
If the Quaid came home – 14 August (Prism)
How to lose an election and still win parliament – 30 June (Prism)
Braving dissent – 18 May
Why Modi keeps going to the brink of war with Pakistan – 10 May (Prism)
Catch-26 – 5 March
2024
Jinnah, fair trials, and military courts – 25 December (Prism)
The Donald supremacy – 8 November (Prism)
Dogar courts – 20 September
What a mess – 6 July
The big upset – 10 February
2023
A bogus law – 14 October
The main thing – 1 April
Pushback – 19 February
Unravelling – 14 January
2022
Empty assembly – 11 December
Right to murder – 21 October
Punjab circus – 24 July
Unity for immunity – 29 June
Lotas and objectors – 22 May
Surprise – 5 April
A good conspiracy – 30 March
A ‘crying evil’ – 7 March
The Qandeel case – 20 February
Biden’s bank heist – 13 February
Laws for lifetimes – 2 February
Los presidentes – 24 January
All politics is local – 16 January
2021
Grey, grey Lahore – 25 November
Weak wills – 15 November
On insurgency – 10 October
Cartel dreams – 28 September
Cut and run – 5 September
Approach the bench – 22 August
In Rumsfeld’s ruins – 4 July
On parliament – 20 June
Imperial losers – 6 June
Banning Mr. Rizvi – 17 April
2020
Weeping for Zion – 28 November
Unkind October – 8 November
Women in France – 1 October
Karachi at sea – 29 August
Duelling nationals – 4 August
To your temples – 19 July
Tear them down – 5 July
Land reform now – 21 June
Corona in Kashmir – 7 May
Sugar Mountain – 12 April
Ayub the First – 16 January
2019
Creation myths – 15 December
Blood pardons – 22 October
Laws of occupation – 6 August
History of violence – 14 April
Surgical Reich – 4 March
Hail Britannia – 3 February
Asghar v. Aslam – 20 January
2018
Not so weak – 30 December
365-M Model Town – 10 October
Another country – 19 July
Decline and fall – 27 March
In guns we trust – 3 March
Return to Kasur – 13 January
2017
The Raymond rules – 28 December
Justice that hurts – 4 October (Dawn.com)
Brave new world – 4 October
On Panama – 30 July
When it comes to Parachinar – 2 July
Mayhem – 10 June
Ehsanullah TV – 7 May
Against the lions – 20 April (Dawn.com)
Right general, wrong alliance – 2 April
The Express Tribune
2016
Not the voice of the creator – 29 December
Ghani’s still Pakistan’s best bet – 5 December
Resurrection – 29 November
Shall we tell the Governor? – 15 November
The Great White Revenge – 9 November
Peace after Uri – 27 September
Muttahida forever? – 30 August
The six-year redemption – 19 July
The heart of Edhi sahib – 12 July
When Great Britain met Little England – 28 June
Phantom punch – 7 June
Going home sometime tomorrow – 30 May
Nobody knows anything – 23 May
No Sadiq Khans in Pakistan – 10 May
Rest, rest perturbed spirit – 3 May
This cancer is in Punjab – 29 March
Godzilla approaches – 22 March
Disco science – 8 March
Purity – 1 March
Love in the Time of Haya – 16 February
Going for broke – 9 February
Women in Sheraniland – 11 January
2015
Peshawar’s truth seekers – 22 December
Qisas, diyat, and the laws of blood – 1 December
Halloween Massacre II – 24 November
Lost in the fog – 17 November
Houbara hunts for petro pesos – 20 October
The Magnificent Delusions of Husain Haqqani – 29 September
Hafeez Pirzada, Pakistan’s Madison – 15 September
The shame of Kasur – 11 August
The ballad of bad elections – 28 July
The devil and the deep blue sea – 9 July
Symptoms of Zardaritis – 19 June
Zarb-e-Azb, Year One – 12 June
Fading from the light – 2 June
Jungle law – 28 May
The Fight of the Century – 5 May
Land reform: a tragedy – 14 April
Operation Yemen Liberation – 31 March
Bibi’s Day Out – 10 March
Team Nasir Jamshed – 3 March
The Orient Strikes Back – 24 February
Hope – 10 February
The King of Hearts: an Obituary – 27 January
Military courts and the definition of insanity – 6 January
2014
Twenty points, too few – 29 December
Grief – 19 December
Torture wars – 16 December
Misery in the age of Obama – 9 December
From Kabul, with love – 18 November
The Nobel Prize for tragic times – 14 October
Would someone cry for Karzai? – 30 September
Scots, tears, and Shahi Syed – 23 September
Sweet China – 9 September
Guns and gasmasks, the Islamabad way – 2 September
Greatness – 26 August
Meltdown – 12 August
White flags for them, green for us – 5 August
Goliath as David – 28 July
A healing justice – 8 July
Manto, age 102 – 24 June
Truth and lies through the lens – 10 June
Modi elected, Jinnah vindicated – 20 May
Boko Haram and the value of evil – 14 May
A crisis of the humanities – 6 May
The soul of Gabriel – 22 April
There’s nothing right about the PPO – 15 April
The case for competition – 1 April
India’s still Indira – 18 March
Resign, Qaim – 11 March
Still missing Miandad – 4 March
Generation Mass Hysteria – 28 January
Hero – 14 January
Fascism goes global – 7 January
2013
How oil poisons everything – 31 December
Strange days for Qazi’s Jamaat – 17 December
Read – 11 November
These Great Games – 5 November
Misbah the Misunderstood – 29 October
The war on Waar – 22 October
Crusading Cowasjee – 15 October
Why dynasties are bad for you – 8 October
Vlad the Terrible – 17 September
Iran and Israel, Assad and America – 10 September
‘Any fool can make history…’ – 3 September
Alien days – 27 August
The Talented Mr. Liaquat – 30 July
White man’s burden – 22 July
Our Willy Brandt moment – 1 July
Walk like a man – 24 June
Nightmares from Narendra – 17 June
Meraj to Mirza, the end of the party – 26 May
In tribute to Pakistani fiction – 30 April
2012
Morning in America – 15 November
Breaking the feudal lords – 10 May
More provinces, less provincials – 10 April
The case against drone attacks – 7 March
Republicans vs. Democrats – 7 February
Herald
Person of the Year: Idol-Smasher (Ayesha Mumtaz) – January 2016
The News International
Burdens, reversals, and the Kayani Court – 4 February 2016
Daduji against the system – 20 August 2014
Golem – 24 January 2014
The Beaver
Richard Nixon and the Great Resentment – 4 October 2011
Asad Rahim Khan 