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, by KHAN Omer Abdullah
The story of the underdog, the cornered and the oppressed standing tall in the face of great odds with nothing but resilience as a shield and conviction as a sword is as old as history itself. The names might change, the conditions may vary, and the forms of oppression may shapeshift. Still, it (…)
, by SUBRAMANIAN Nirupama
In a work of deep introspection that is free of rhetoric, well-known Pakistani nuclear physicist and essayist, Pervez Hoodbhoy re-examines the history of his country, asking how it got to where it is now. He also seeks to provide a new framework for a more viable Pakistan.
In the prolonged (…)
, by TAQI Mohammad
Musharraf’s lasting legacy is upending the constitutional order, death and destruction in Balochistan, sowing the winds of Talibanisation for which the country reaps the whirlwinds, and a career full of lies and deceit.
Can you tell me the names of my dogs?”
“Dot and Buddy, Sir!”
The man (…)
, by ABBAS Zaigum
Though the Pakistani politics was always dominated by the security establishment, a new consensus, however, emerged after the ouster of General Pervaiz Musharraf in 2008.
This consensus allowed for a hybrid democracy and return of the exiled political leadership. The hybrid democracy meant (…)
, by MALLICK Ayyaz
On April 3rd, citing a “foreign conspiracy” to unseat him and to avoid an impending vote of no confidence, cricketer-turned-politician and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan dissolved the National Assembly. On April 7th, the dissolution was over-turned and declared unconstitutional by the (…)
, by JAN Ammar Ali
Last month, Pakistan witnessed some of the most violent clashes between protestors and security forces in the country’s recent history, which left 6 police officers and 12 protestors dead. The protests were led by Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), a right-wing religious group that came to (…)
, by MALIK Anushay
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Student and worker movements took place across the world in the late 1960s. So the fact students and workers across Pakistan also came out on to the streets in the same period is not particularly remarkable. However, historian Srinath Raghavan goes so far as to say that, “the (…)
, by SARWAR Beena
He died wanting the same peace that his comrades, young and old, yearned for and will keep working towards.
Early on Sunday morning in Karachi, a little over a month after his 89th birthday on July 18, 2019, B.M. Kutty slipped into the ever after. A lifelong activist, trade unionist, (…)
, by KHAN Lal
In the late spring of 1919, green meadows in the fertile plains of the Punjab were acquiring a golden hue with the sun’s rising radiance. It was the onset of harvest time. A century ago the near-absence of pollution, the air would have been fresh. With mustard yellow pastures in the periphery of (…)
, by SATTAR Mehar Abdul
In the land of the pure, many intellectuals, analysts and political commentators are always curious about the lives of bourgeoisie politicians. They seem to have a dogged determination to learn about the type of clothes that a particular politician prefers; the kind of food that he craves; or (…)
, by MANTO Saadat Hasan
Manto’s writing serves as an introduction to some of Iqbal’s revolutionary, socialist poetry, away from the pan-Islamist, male-chauvinistic zeal with which he is usually associated.
Translator’s note: On the occasion of Iqbal’s 141st birth anniversary today (and the 80th anniversary of his (…)
, by ALI Mahir
IT is salutary to recall that one of the most potent popular rebellions in Pakistan was sparked by goods worth Rs5,000. Sure, that meant a great deal more 50 years ago, but even so it was a pretty paltry amount in comparison with what the chief beneficiaries of Ayub Khan’s “the decade of (…)
, by KHAN Lal
Fifty years ago this land witnessed the most glorious moments of its history. Pakistan’s virgin proletariat and the oppressed classes were storming heavens. They had entered the arena of history and were determined to take their destiny in their own hands. Revolutionary periods are historical (…)
, by RAHIM Eric
During the 1880s the economic landscape of Western Punjab (now part of Pakistan) was radically reshaped. Through a vast irrigation project, consisting of a network of canals, large tracts of arid and barren lands were brought under cultivation. There were no individual property rights on these (…)
, by KHALID Haroon
An excerpt from ‘Imagining Lahore’,writer Haroon Khalid’s romance with the legendary city, once in undivided India, now in Pakistan.
While Lahore is undoubtedly a symbol of hegemonic authority, it is also the city of Habib Jalib, the rebel poet, who challenged this hegemony his entire life. (…)
, by SALIM Saquib
In his poetry, Elia points out that the enmity between religious people and communists is not innate but a later invention of elites to discredit Marxist ideas.
During the past few years, Jaun Elia has taken Urdu poetry circles in cyberspace by storm. A well-known name among aficionados of (…)
, by AHMED Dania
This is an attack on a Pakistan, where the diversity of its citizens is the fabric of the society and history.
There is a legend told through oral tradition in the sub-continent. There was a man who appeared before a great city, a wanderer seeking refuge in a new land.
When the king found (…)
, par DANIYAL Shoaib, ISPAHANI Farahnaz
Farahnaz Ispahani, the Pakistani politician and author blames, the military-mullah nexus for the terrible discrimination against minorities. But she believes that there is hope for a turnaround.
Farhanaz Ispahani was a Member of the Pakistani Parliament and the Media Adviser to the President (…)
, by ALI Kamran Asdar
A short history of the mass strike in Karachi in June, 1972 following the killings of three striking factory workers by police.
Within a year of coming to power in late 1971, the popularly elected prime minister of Pakistan, Zulfiquar Ali Bhutto, crushed a major strike by industrial workers (…)
, by SIRMED Marvi
Let me start with a profound apology for covering, what many might deem an “unimportant” issue this week. With all my sympathies with the innocent children and civilians being killed on the pretext of targeting terrorists in Gaza, I for one, could not help thinking about a ‘minor’ incident that (…)
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