Volume 8, No. 10, October 2026
Editor: Rashed Rahman
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Jahanzeb Tipu: Obituarising a Man Who Refuses to Die
Abbas Zaidi
In some cases, life and death do not exist in binary opposition because death may be a form of life and vice versa.
Preserving Pakistan
Ashraf Jehangir Qazi
There are ultimate questions that arise at critical times in a person’s or nation’s existence. They bear on the continued existence of the person or nation concerned.
The Necropolitics in Balochistan: Memoirs, Emotions, Identity – II
Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
Conflicts mean death and destruction for the colonised because the coloniser’s greed and racism is insatiable and knows no limits or boundaries.
Balochistan’s Imbroglio: A Marxist Gramscian Perspective – II
Saulat Nagi
Bhutto’s era became what Gramsci calls a “Caesarist parliamentary dictatorship”, resembling the elected dictatorships of Depretis, Crispi and Giolitti in Italy.
Pakistan: Anti-Terrorism Bill Threatens Fair Trials
Punjab Provincial Assembly Should Develop Rights-Respecting Protections
HRW Press
(New York, September 11, 2026) – The Punjab provincial assembly in Pakistan on August 31, 2026, passed a bill that would threaten the right to a fair trial in counterterrorism proceedings, Human Rights Watch said today.
Empire as a Way of Life
Tariq Ali
In a rare public statement, George W. Bush warned a few days ago that blowback is always inevitable.
Huge scandal exposes how US uses criminals to manipulate elections in Latin America
Ben Norton
Far-right election meddling specialist Fernando Cerimedo was arrested for trying to assassinate his pregnant ex-girlfriend.
From Subjects to Citizens: Pakistan’s Unfinished Independence
Mohammed Qazilbash
Nearly eight decades after independence, Pakistan must confront a difficult truth: the colonial ruler left, but the colonial relationship between state and citizen did not.
Marx’s analysis of capitalism
Rashed Rahman
The initial chapter of Karl Marx’s major work Capital Vol 1 first deals with commodities, after which he proceeded to show how money is transformed into capital.