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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]
Nadeem Farooq Paracha | |
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Born | Nadeem Farooq Paracha 6 February 1967 |
Other names | Nadeem F. Paracha |
Occupation | Journalist |
Years active | 1987– present |
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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