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Aasim Sajjad Akhtar

Aasim Sajjad Akhtar

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Roots of barbarism

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’...

13.04.2024 100

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Our Indian mirror

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...

29.03.2024 100

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TikTok wars

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....

15.03.2024 100

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Ruling class normal

PAKISTAN is on fire, and not in a good way. Interrelated demographic, ecological and economic crises are escalating. The incoming government owes its...

01.03.2024 100

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Why we fail

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...

16.02.2024 200

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Grim Islamabad

SIXTY years after it was created, Islamabad is still said to be 10 kilometres from Pakistan proper, an oasis of greenery, prosperity and technocracy...

02.02.2024 90

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What Davos tells us

PAKISTAN’S ethnic peripheries continue to burn. Working class households in peripheries and metropolitan areas alike continue to be strangulated by...

20.01.2024 100

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Punjab must decide

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...

05.01.2024 100

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Baloch question

THERE is no single issue that clarifies one’s political position in Pakistan than the Baloch question. This was made brutally clear this past...

22.12.2023 400

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Will polls matter?

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...

08.12.2023 100

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No justice no peace

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...

24.11.2023 100

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Deprived & hateful

PAKISTAN appears to rank among the most classed, militarised and hate-riven societies. The victimisation of working-class Pakhtuns, Hazaras, etc,...

10.11.2023 100

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New world order?

AS Palestinians are slaughtered to death by the Israeli war machine, rulers of Muslim-majority countries scramble to depict themselves as principled...

27.10.2023 200

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Deadly culture wars

“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.” —...

13.10.2023 100

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No reason to gloat

PAKISTANI officialdom has had a field day in the aftermath of Canadian Prime Minster Justin Trudeau’s bombshell statement about the Indian...

29.09.2023 100

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For nationalisation

THE ‘caretaker’ government (read: the security establishment and its lackeys) has embarked on yet another ideological offensive about the...

15.09.2023 100

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