Volume 6, No. 5, May 2024
Editor: Rashed Rahman
Rashed Rahman
What were the distinctive political conditions that led to Third World Revolutions after WWII and in the era of decolonisation?
Bhutto factor: The Ascendancy of Liberal, Mystic, Ascetic Islam
Rafi Pervaiz Bhatti
In the previous three chapters (see Pakistan Monthly Review October, December 2023 and February 2024 respectively – Ed.) I have endeavoured to explain the conceptual position of the three distinctive classes of Muslim Identity in the Indian Subcontinent and their relative behaviour in the context of pertinent events in history. My narrative of personal experiences and observations in the next chapters have a direct relevance to the historical conceptual position explained in the previous chapters.
Changez Ali
It is the work of Marxists to assign to the proletariat and revolutionary working class a quality essential to them that is distinct from their material and historical position (the latter being taken at any particular moment in history and not the span of history as a whole).
The Frontier Corps (FC) and ground reality
Mohammad Ali Talpur
The Kharotabad (Quetta) incident of May 17, 2011 reflects the attitudes of the Frontier Corps (FC) and police in Balochistan and signifies the value they put on human lives.
The Years of Resistance
Fayyaz Baqir
In 1968, over 50 years ago at the time of this writing, I enrolled as a B.A. (Honours) student at Punjab University (PU) Lahore. This was the time when the student movement against colonial occupation, racial discrimination, class prejudices and sexual taboos swept the globe.
Ashraf Jehangir Qazi
Haal-e-chaman par talkh nawaee
Murgh-e-chaman kuchh iss se ziyada
(Bitter song on the state of our garden
Nightingale, say something more than this)
– Faiz Ahmad Faiz.
There is a view that even if the recent elections were stolen we should move on and make the best of a rotten situation in order to put the country on the path to recovery and progress.
A counterintuitive view of the chessboard
Fayyaz Baqir
Fault lines of democratic politics in Pakistan
Democracy in Pakistan was never in the interests of the west. Pakistan inherited a predominantly anti-imperialist public opinion. During the Cold War years, the western empire led by the US wanted Pakistan to serve as a frontline state to stop the expansion of the communist ‘east’.