Nadeem Farooq Paracha (Urdu: ندیم فاروق پراچہ), also known as NFP, is a Pakistani journalist, author, cultural critic, satirist and historian. He is a columnist for Pakistan's largest English language daily Dawn newspaper.

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, and Soul Rivals.His sixth book The Reluctant Republic:The Ethos & Mythos of Pakistan, was published in February 2022.

Paracha is also a Research Scholar and Reagan-Fascell Fellow at the International Forum for Democratic Studies in Washington DC. 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.

Books

• End of the past:: An immediate eyewitness history of a troubled nation, La*:: Vanguard Books, 2016, 234 p.
• The Pakistan Anti-Hero:: History of Pakistani nationalism through the lives of iconoclasts, La*:: Vanguard Books, 2017, 396 p.
• Points of Entry:: Encounters at the origin-sites of Pakistan, Chennai:: Tranquebar, 2018, 160 p.
• Muslim modernism:: A case for Naya Pakistan, La*:: Vanguard Books, 2019, 162 p.
• Soul Rivals:: State, Militant and Pop Sufism in Pakistan, Chennai:: Tranquebar, 2020, 128 p.
• The Reluctant Republic: Ethos And Mythos Of Pakistan, La*: Vanguard Books, 2021, 147 p.

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