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, by ALI Laiba
Hyderabad : Progressive Students Collective is among six student organizations who have formed the Hyderabad Students Alliance to address the issue of harassment faced by women on campuses as well as the recent raise in tuition fees.
The other organizations in the coalition include Progressive (...)
, by Dawn (Pakistan)
LAHORE: The budget must take up issues of poverty, reduce non-combat defence expenditure and imports must go down by at least five per cent to avert the immediate current account crisis, suggests noted economist Dr Kaisar Bangali, adding that privatisation is not an answer to the current (...)
, by AKHTAR Aasim Sajjad
It has been a month since the so-called unity government came to power. It still seems to be labouring under the illusion that formulating a coherent programme to serve the needs of Pakistanis is rocket science. In fact, it is quite straightforward.
For those in government that are committed (...)
, by ULLAH Zafar
On the night between 9th and 10th of April, Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan was ousted by a vote of no confidence in the parliament with 174 members voting against him, making him the first PM in Pakistan’s history to be shown the door in this manner. The motion was supported by all (...)
, by TARIQ Farooq
Suddenly, Imran Khan has become “Anti American”. Former prime minister of Pakistan and head of his Pakistan Justice Party (PTI), Mr Khan is holding mass rallies after losing majority at the national parliament. In his speeches before he was voted out as prime minister but particularly after the (...)
, by BALOCH Shah Meer, ELLIS-PETERSEN Hannah
Pakistan’s prime minister found to have broken the law by attempting to stop vote going ahead
Pakistan’s prime minister, Imran Khan, has lost a no-confidence vote in parliament after a dramatic week in which he violated the constitution in an attempt to stop the move going ahead.
Khan, the (...)
, by Haqooq-E-Khalq
Haqooq-e-Khalq Party considers the decision by Prime Minister Imran Khan to dissolve the National Assembly to be a blatantly unconstitutional and anti-democratic step, as this was done in violation of Rule 37(8) of the National Assembly Rules of Procedure, which clearly states: “The Assembly (...)
, by BALOCH Shah Meer
As Imran Khan faces an ignominious end, his rants reach a feverish pitch. One of the greatest farces of our age is the manner in which right wing reactionaries pose as anti-imperialists. In Pakistan the religious right has widely popularised an anti-western cultural critique and falsely equated (...)
, by AKHTAR Aasim Sajjad
PAKISTAN is in the grip of a heatwave. There has been no spring season to usher in the transition from winter, and a long summer now beckons. It scarcely matters whether this particular abrupt rise in temperatures is directly explained by global warming. The climate science is in any case clear (...)
, by AKHTAR Aasim Sajjad
MANY non-white peoples are outraged at the Western mainstream’s response to Russia’s military assault on Ukraine. Western media, intellectuals and politicians are united in their sanctioning of Russia under the pretext that ‘civilised’ Europeans must be defended. They remain silent, however, about (...)
LAHORE : The protest of Progressive Students Collective (PSC) has entered 11th day. PSC from different colleges and universities of the country has set up a protest camp against a ban on student unions at Charing Cross and demanded lifting of the ban on students’ unions.
The PSC has issued a (...)
, by AHMED, Hassaan
’Student unions used to be nurseries for future politicians’: Qamar-uz-Zaman Bhatti
On February 9, 1984, former military dictator General Zia-ul-Haq imposed a ban on student unions in Pakistan.
As many as 38 years have passed but the student unions couldn’t be restored in true letter and spirit. (...)
, by KHALIQ Abdul
As the IMF executive board met on January 28 to decide on Pakistan`s request for the revival of $6bn Extended Fund Facility (EFF), the government remained optimistic having fulfilled all the five conditions imposed by the global lender to revive its 39-month program suspended since April last (...)
, by IQBAL Nasir
Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee (PKRC) welcomes the decision of Lahore High court declaring RUDA project illegal.
“It is a historic verdict which will go a long way in curbing catastrophic developmental projects in future” general secretary of Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee, Farooq Tariq said (...)
, by JAN Ammar Ali
Ammar Ali Jan (Haqooq-e-Khalq Movement) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 17 January 2022. For queries, please contact the seminar convenor at saih history.ox.ac.uk.
This talk will discuss salient features of authoritarian rule in Pakistan. First, the permanent (...)
, by AKHTAR Aasim Sajjad
FOR all that changes in Pakistan’s political life, much continues to conform to a choreographed script. Take, for example, the emergence of ‘popular’ demands for a presidential system of government whenever an establishment-sponsored regime is reaching the end of its shelf life. With some 18 (...)
, by NOOR Arifa
“MOST days Zafra and her family wake up at 5 a.m. and engage in manual labour until 6 p.m., working through the heat and smoke. She and her husband earn PKR 600 for every thousand bricks they produce, a target they aim to meet together daily. They can’t even afford to eat daal ... on a daily (...)
, by AKHTAR Aasim Sajjad
WHO rules Pakistan? Some may say the answer is simple: the establishment. This may be accurate to the extent that our structure of power is conceptualised within our physical borders. But how do we understand the establishment’s position in the context of global political and economic powers (...)
, by AKHTAR Aasim Sajjad
CHRISTMAS is hardly a big occasion in Pakistan. More than two million Pakistani Christians celebrate it guardedly, with few from the Muslim majority joining them. Government officials issue cut-and-paste statements and put up a Christmas tree or two in public places, and then return to the (...)
, by GroundXero
A report on the Student Solidarity March 2021 held in many cities across Pakistan on Friday demanding lifting of the ban on campus politics and student unions in universities and colleges in Pakistan.
Thousands of students from universities and colleges across Pakistan took to the streets for (...)
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