Volume 7, No. 1, January 2025
Editor: Rashed Rahman
Introduction
It has become almost an orthodoxy to say that the great divide in the world today is between nationalisms. The talk of “a new world order” and “the end of history” may not have lasted long…
One of the most stunning events of the past few months has been the fall of Damascus. This fall had initially been expected over a decade ago, when rebel armies funded by Qatar, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the US crowded around the edges of Syria and threatened then-President Bashar al-Assad’s government…
In the beginning was the press and then the world appeared,” Karl Kraus wrote in 1921. The biblical allusion was no rhetorical flourish…
I start with some ‘pre-history’.
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…
In keeping with the facade of presenting the military coup of October 1958 as a ‘revolution’, within two weeks of its establishment the military dictatorship appointed a Land Reforms Commission, headed by Akhtar Hussain, Governor of West Pakistan…
Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
Nationalists who demands rights that they are denied and against whom the state commits injustices with impunity are condemned out of hand even by the liberals who do not really care for the people’s rights...
Dr. Qaisar Abbas
Challenging the conventional wisdom, this article argues that colonialism never left South Asia as it transformed itself into internal colonialism after independence…