May 2025

The Struggle in Balochistan

Adaner Usmani

Over the 11 years that have elapsed since 9/11, Pakistan has found itself in the headlights of the mainstream press for a few consistent reasons.

Letter to History-I

Hazaran Rahim Dad

Pakistan continues to terrorise activists, young and old, for protesting the enforced disappearances of their brothers, sisters, and forefathers – losses the Baloch people are never truly allowed to mourn.

Letter to History-II

Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur

In this letter, Ustad Mohammad Ali Talpur responds to Hazaran Baloch, tracing the moral and political stakes of remembrance and resistance in the Baloch struggle.

I wouldn’t start from here!

Ashraf Jehangir Qazi

(Only half spoof)

At the precipice, security asked them to move on.

In Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, protests and speeches against killings, tortures, disappearances, destruction of properties, stealing of land, energy and mineral resources, decades of violations of political rights, etc., are considered support for terrorism. In the name of counterterrorism a war has been declared against the protesting Baloch and Pashtun people.

A Crimson Journey with Harris Khalique

Abbas Zaidi

“History is a book which we write and in which we are written” – Blaise Pascal.

One of the dangers of writing non-fiction is that it is likely to become passé, especially when it relates to the writing of history.

Bangladesh’s future stuck in an inescapable past

Shehryar Fazli

“This was a destruction not of a house but of our history, of my history,” said a veteran of Bangladesh’s 1971 liberation war.

The National Question in the Indian Union and Pakistan – I

A M Dyakov

The following analysis of the national question in India and Pakistan is part of a wider study undertaken by A M Dyakov on the political developments in the Subcontinent in the period 1939-1949, which was published by the Institute of Orientalism of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1952.

Student and Faculty Repression on US Campuses: a Report on the Palestine Exception

Fawzia Afzal-Khan

Thanks to Donald Trump, the 45th and the 47th President of the Greatest Democracy on Earth (?!) – liberal white Euro-America now knows what the two-thirds world