Volume 6, No. 12, December 2024
Editor: Rashed Rahman
The Pakistani Revolution – V
The Economic pattern
W B Bland
The military dictatorship of the ‘Karachi’ clique had no wish to change fundamentally the colonial-type economic structure of Pakistan: “The new Plan (i.e., the Second Five Year Plan, 1961-65 – Ed.) did not radically differ from the previous one in its motivation and conception. Its authors did not think that there was anything basically wrong with the first Plan” (Mushtaq Ahmad: Government and Politics in Pakistan, Karachi, 1963, p.219).…
Rejoinder to Fayyaz Baqir
Imtiaz Alam
I wanted to respond to Fayyaz Baqir’s sham story of ‘armed propaganda’ in his previous instalment in this journal (Pakistan Monthly Review, November 2024, Fayyaz Baqir: The Fourth International).…
Jammu & Kashmir: The Pakistan Factor
Saleem Akhtar Malik
The recently held elections to the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Legislative Assembly indicate that India has failed in its strategic objectives on J&K.…
The Rise of Baloch Nationalism and Resistance – XVI
Human Development Index and Balochistan
Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
The figures on Human Development Index (HDI) regarding Balochistan are not forthcoming and even searches do not provide up to date figures so I am sharing here a piece about the UNDP Report of 2018 written by Nadil Baloch….
Lost generation
Samia Dogar
A recent news of a young boy losing his life during a protest is deeply saddening...
From the PMR Archives: June 2019
From the Editor
Crisis of Pakistan’s state and society
That Pakistan has been in the throes of a crisis of state and society has become a commonplace over the years...