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 |
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]
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]