Volume 7, No. 2, February 2025
Editor: Rashed Rahman
Tisaranee Gunasekara
Sri Lanka knows political turbulence. The island nation has survived, among other calamities, a twenty-five-year civil war, two insurrections, and pogroms..
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..
North America
Fayyaz Baqir
Starting in 1979 many progressive political activists, journalists, poets, artists and intellectuals moved to Western Europe and North America due to the repression of Ziaul Haq’s regime..
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..
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..
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..
Samia Dogar
A recent news of a young boy losing his life during a protest is deeply saddening. This tragic incident underscores a concerning trend: the rise of violent protests involving young people..
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..