Mohammed Hanif, the former fighter pilot turned journalist, at a fan-signing event during a literature festival in Islamabad in September. – AFP pic, November 18, 2019.
FEATURING bumbling generals, assassination plots, and homosexual romance, Pakistani military satire A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif has finally been released in the country’s official language Urdu – even as the army tightens its grip on freedom of expression. The former fighter pilot turned journalist, novelist and librettist is best known for the 2008 novel which chronicles the final days of hard-line dictator Gen Zia-ul-Haq’s rule and the myriad conspiracies behind the plane crash that killed him in 1988.
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