Nadeem F. Paracha

Who is Nadeem F. Paracha?

Nadeem Farooq Paracha, is a left-liberal Pakistani journalist, cultural critic, satirist and short story writer. Since the late 1990s, Paracha has been one of the most vocal critics of Islamists and of the rise of Political Islam in Pakistan. Though having a staunch Marxist background, he now also takes to task certain leading leftists of Pakistan for failing to condemn Islamist violence.

On the issue of anti-Americanism in Pakistan, Paracha claims that "It has become an obligatory part of populist rhetoric in which American involvement is blamed for everything that goes wrong in the country."

He is often criticised by his detractors both on the left and the right for taking overtly pro-West and pro-US stands.