March 2025 – Pakistan Monthly Review

March 2025

The Elusive Self

Navid Shahzad

In Pakistan-India relations, the past continues to weigh the heaviest as both countries attempt to wipe the slate clean of their respective collective history..

The return of the National Question – III

Nationalism since the First World War

Chris Harman

There can be little doubt that Lenin was right in his argument against Rosa Luxemburg and others that the development of capitalism was leading to a proliferation of new nationalisms..

The Pakistani Revolution – VIII

The ‘Six Points’

W B Bland

In February 1966 Sheikh Mujibur Rehman, the President of the Awami League (AL), put forward a six-point programme…

Book Review

Salman Rafi Sheikh: The genesis of Baloch nationalism: Politics and ethnicity in Pakistan, 1947-1977 (Routledge, Abingdon, 2018)

Jamison Heinkel

Salman Rafi Sheikh’s The genesis of Baloch nationalism: Politics and ethnicity in Pakistan, 1947-1977 delves into the complexities of the Pakistani Baloch conflict, challenging the conventional narrative that attributes it solely to obstinate tribal leaders and external conspiracies..

Capitalism’s ‘gift’: climate change

From the PMR Archives: September 2019

From the Editor

The serious catastrophe looming for the ecosystem and indeed life itself on Earth due to climate change and its effects has finally gripped the imagination of millions throughout the world, especially the youth..