Nadeem F. Paracha

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 newspaper.[9][10][11]

He is the author of six books on the social and political history of Pakistan: The Pakistan Anti-Hero, End of the Past, Points of Entry, Muslim Modernism: A Case For Naya Pakistan,[12] and Soul Rivals.[13] His sixth book The Reluctant Republic:The Ethos & Mythos of Pakistan, was published in February 2022. [14]

Paracha is also a Research Scholar and Reagan-Fascell Fellow at the International Forum for Democratic Studies in Washington DC.[15] and a consultant for Adcom Leo Burnett Worldwide.

Paracha graduated from the Karachi Grammar School in 1983. He then joined a state-owned college in Karachi where he became a radical 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]