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NOT a day goes by in the land of the pure without disclosures of despicable acts against the most vulnerable. Sex crimes perpetrated by ‘learned’...
SOON after the Babri Masjid was demolished by Hindu nationalist mobs in December 1992, Fahmida Riaz wrote an epic poem entitled Tum bilkul hum jaise...
LONG before Pakistan’s latest hybrid regime imposed its unannounced ban on the social media site X, TikTok was shut down four times between 2020-21....
PAKISTAN is on fire, and not in a good way. Interrelated demographic, ecological and economic crises are escalating. The incoming government owes its...
FEB 8 has come and gone. The post-poll rigging and smoky backroom deals will carry on for some time. The frenzied wheeling and dealing will then give...
SIXTY years after it was created, Islamabad is still said to be 10 kilometres from Pakistan proper, an oasis of greenery, prosperity and technocracy...
PAKISTAN’S ethnic peripheries continue to burn. Working class households in peripheries and metropolitan areas alike continue to be strangulated by...
ELECTION season is when the bourgeois political class makes all sorts of promises and at the same time says nothing at all. Take, for example, the...
THERE is no single issue that clarifies one’s political position in Pakistan than the Baloch question. This was made brutally clear this past...
THE powers that be have declared that general elections will be held on Feb 8. Ask any seasoned observer, however, and they will tell you that there...
BY the time this appears in print, a four-day ‘truce’ may have come into effect in Gaza. If so, it would have taken some 15,000 Palestinians to be...
PAKISTAN appears to rank among the most classed, militarised and hate-riven societies. The victimisation of working-class Pakhtuns, Hazaras, etc,...
AS Palestinians are slaughtered to death by the Israeli war machine, rulers of Muslim-majority countries scramble to depict themselves as principled...
“I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter’s gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.” —...
PAKISTANI officialdom has had a field day in the aftermath of Canadian Prime Minster Justin Trudeau’s bombshell statement about the Indian...
THE ‘caretaker’ government (read: the security establishment and its lackeys) has embarked on yet another ideological offensive about the...