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Aasim Sajjad Akhtar

Aasim Sajjad Akhtar

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America’s president

NOT so long ago, America’s president effectively enjoyed the mantle of world leadership. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992 had elevated the...

25.10.2024 100

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Punjab has the key

TO say that Punjab is Pakistan’s heartland is to state a simple fact. Even if one were to separate the Seraiki belt from the administrative unit...

11.10.2024 100

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Cultural resistance

MOB lynchings under the pretext of blasphemy have become commonplace. In exceptional circumstances, law enforcement officials intervene and take...

27.09.2024 100

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Privatisation myth

BEYOND sensational late-night arrests of opposition MNAs, impunity for abductors and unending intrigue, there is a remarkable degree of continuity and...

13.09.2024 200

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The Baloch question

IT is not as if we have not been here before. Balochistan has bled for so long that the mainstream Pakistani consciousness has tuned it into the...

30.08.2024 200

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Freelancers for ruin

ANOTHER Aug 14 has passed by with familiar proclamations about the evil designs of the proverbial ‘foreign hand’. As usual, outside conspirators...

16.08.2024 100

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The class war

WORKING people in Pakistan are literally struggling to breathe. If they seek some relief from the heat by turning on a couple of fans and using a...

02.08.2024 200

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Strategic games

IT is August 2021. Pakistani spymasters, pro-establishment ideologues and then prime minister Imran Khan unanimously celebrate the re-conquest of...

19.07.2024 200

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Patrons vs people

ON Feb 8, a significant number of Pakistan’s people, mostly the young, threw out the selectors’ script and cast their vote for the PTI. Most knew...

05.07.2024 100

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Tick tock

ALMOST five months since one of the most manipulated general elections in our checkered history, there is an ominous quiet before yet another...

21.06.2024 100

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Budgeting chaos

‘STABILISATION’ is the favourite word of mainstream economists. The IMF loves it, and has recently hinted that Pakistan’s economy has...

07.06.2024 100

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Hot capital

PAKISTAN is burning up. And so is much of its neighbourhood. The Indo-Gangetic plain, spanning the breadth of the subcontinent, is currently the...

24.05.2024 100

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Farmers’ march

IT has been 20 years since the iconic peasant movement on the Okara military farms reached its zenith. Having been intimately involved with the...

10.05.2024 80

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Vietnam moment?

IT has been half a century since the humbling of the world’s mightiest military, the US army, by Vietnamese guerilla warriors. It was, by all...

26.04.2024 200

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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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