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About Maruf Khwaja

Maruf Khwaja is a journalist and author. Orginally born in India, he was raised in Pakistan and currently lives in London.

Articles by Maruf Khwaja

Wednesday 9th January

Pakistan: dynasty vs democracy

Maruf Khwaja, 9 January 2008
The Bhutto succession reveals the depth of Pakistan's crisis
Sunday 12th August

Becoming Pakistani

Maruf Khwaja, 12 August 2007
"Friends and neighbours became enemies." As Pakistan celebrates, Maruf Khwaja recalls the pain of birth (archive)
Tuesday 24th July

The war for Pakistan

Maruf Khwaja, 24 July 2007
The Lal Masjid siege has emboldened Pakistan's Islamists
Sunday 13th May

Rising, uprising Pakistan

Maruf Khwaja, 13 May 2007
The ultimate source of the crisis surrounding Pervez Musharraf is the failed state of Pakistan itself, says Maruf Khwaja.
Monday 13th November

The veil of political Islam

Maruf Khwaja, 13 November 2006
The wearing of the face-veil by a minority of Muslim women in Britain must be seen in the light of an Islamist political project, says Maruf Khwaja.
Wednesday 12th July

After Mumbai: back to the brink?

Maruf Khwaja, 12 July 2006
The architects of the commuter-train attacks in Mumbai may succeed in pushing India and Pakistan towards renewed confrontation, says Maruf Khwaja.
Tuesday 11th April

The Islamisation of Pakistan

Maruf Khwaja, 11 April 2006
Religious obscurantism and political weakness are combining to destroy Pakistan, argues Maruf Khwaja.
Wednesday 1st February

The Baluchi battlefront

Maruf Khwaja, 1 February 2006
Pakistan's western province is in the grip of a violent insurgency whose roots lie in the political misuse of communal traditions as much as in oppression by the central government in Islamabad, argues Maruf Khwaja.
Monday 10th October

Pakistan's mountain tsunami

Maruf Khwaja, 10 October 2005
“As usual, God is being unjustly blamed for tragedies that are the consequence in large part of human failure.” Maruf Khwaja weighs the balance of cosmic justice and earthly negligence revealed by the Kashmir earthquake.
Wednesday 14th September

'The growth of religious diversity: Britain from 1945,' Gerald Parsons

Maruf Khwaja, 14 September 2005
“The significance of religion in post-war Britain.”
Monday 1st August

Muslims in Britain: generations, experiences, futures

Maruf Khwaja, 1 August 2005
British Muslims are under a harsh spotlight following the July bomb attacks in London. Maruf Khwaja offers a sympathetic but clear-eyed view of how they are trying to make sense of a difficult predicament.
Wednesday 27th July

Terrorism, Islam, reform: thinking the unthinkable

Maruf Khwaja, 27 July 2005
The atrocity of 7 July in London is the latest manifestation of a rooted culture of ignorance and intolerance in the Muslim world. Only reform can save Islam from itself, says Maruf Khwaja.
Tuesday 21st June

Keeping Armageddon at bay

Maruf Khwaja, 21 June 2005
The historic rapprochement between India and Pakistan will not endure if fundamentalists on both sides have their way, argues Maruf Khwaja.
Thursday 18th March

India and Pakistan: the cricket test

Maruf Khwaja, 18 March 2004
India and Pakistan are two South Asian giants joined by history and language, divided by politics and war. But now they are also engaged in exuberant, passionate, friendly rivalry where it really matters: on the cricket pitch. Maruf Khwaja - memorialist, exile, survivor, cricket nut with a foot in every camp – is in earthly paradise.
Tuesday 13th August

The past in the present: India, Pakistan and history

Maruf Khwaja, 13 August 2002
The perpetual conflict between India and Pakistan is rooted in the circumstances of their creation. The “two-nation” theory, which justified partition, is dead but its consequences of centralist politics and falsified history remain.
Tuesday 16th April

Exploring the death wish

Maruf Khwaja, 16 April 2002
In the interests of merciful release from pain, a merciful God, or a merciless political cause, people are affirming their right to die.
Wednesday 23rd January

India and Pakistan: states of mind, contests of perception

Maruf Khwaja, 23 January 2002
The hair-trigger hostility between India and Pakistan is felt in the recesses of national psychology as well as the competition over territory. It is an intimate as well as a bitter enmity. An exiled Pakistan writer analyses the roots of polarisation and asks whether the insane logic of intolerance offers paradoxical seeds of hope.
Thursday 13th September

The suicide of fundamentalism

Maruf Khwaja, 13 September 2001
The speed, reach and supports of today’s Islamic terrorism owe much to globalisation. But there is a silent majority building in the Islamic world, and among the young people of its diaspora. Can they take the fanaticism out of fundamentalism?
Wednesday 8th August

The Indian media: a response to Page and Crawley

Maruf Khwaja, 8 August 2001
Those who have endured decades of perverse Bollywood fantasies bombarding their own besieged cultures will point to darker shades cast by India’s pretensions to world power status.
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