Interview with Nadeem Aslam: "Within Three or Four Years the Texture of Pakistani Life Changed"
"Within Three or Four Years the Texture of Pakistani Life Changed" In this interview with Claudia Kramatschek, Nadeem Aslam talks about his native Pakistan, the military rule of Zia ul-Haque, and his most recent novel, about Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion The era of Zia-ul-Haque has an indirect role in your new novel because Zia was responsible for Pakistan's fatal involvement in the Afghanistan war that still haunts the world today. Your family had to leave Pakistan under Zia's regime – was this a defining moment in your life? Nadeem Aslam: I wouldn't be here talking to y...
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