ABSTRACT
In ‘Poetry, Pakistani Idiom in English, and the Groupies’, Alamgir Hashmi reminds us that:
the proponents of the idea of a Pakistani idiom are not only interested in certain literary techniques but also try to assume an active role in the politics of culture […] to decide who is a Pakistani writer […] The matter should thus make one raise questions not only about a Pakistani idiom in English but also about ‘Pakistaniness’: what constitutes this, that, and the other? And who may best exemplify these?
(1990: 268–271)