Nadeem Farooq Paracha (Urdu: ???? ????? ??????) is a Pakistani journalist, author and cultural critic.
He is a columnist for Pakistan's largest English language daily Dawn newspaper.He is the author of four books: The Pakistan Anti-Hero, End of past: An immediate eyewitness history of a troubled nation, Points of Entry and Muslim Modernism: A Case For Naya Pakistan.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 was a radical Marxist student leader in the 1980s.
He was often considered to be a socialist when he joined journalism in the 1990s.
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.