Volume 7, No. 1, January 2025
Editor: Rashed Rahman
Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
The Baloch leaders were incarcerated or exiled from Balochistan to deprive them of the support and also interaction with people they had influence on and those whom they could potentially influence to resist the injustices against the Baloch.
Ashraf Jehangir Qazi
It is a great privilege to be invited to speak to the Centre for Aerospace and Security Studies (CASS). I shall make some very brief but frank introductory remarks and then respond to the four questions put to me by CASS.
Fayyaz Baqir
There is a silent revolution underway in Pakistan. This revolution is led by civil society, the true successor of Jinnah. Civil society organisations (CSOs) have changed the relationship between the state and citizen groups from othering to belonging.
Dr Maqsudul Hasan Nuri
‘Far right’, ‘radical right’ and ‘extreme right’ are interchangeably used by scholars related to different shades of right populism. The phenomenon is increasingly dissected by scholars from the west.
Rafi Pervaiz Bhatti
“Oye Fraudio, Tussi Ithay Keeh Pai Karde Oh?” (Oh you scoundrels, what are you doing here?). My Principal in Punjab University Law College, Sheikh Imtiaz Ali, drove past us but reversed his car just to cut the teasing remark in Punjabi.
Vijay Prashad
On the last day of the BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, the five founding states (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa)
Charles Amjad-Ali
Aggressive territorial usurpation and expansion of settlements by Israel
The UN adopted Resolution 181 (also known as the ‘Partition Resolution’) on November 29, 1947. The Resolution envisioned that after Great Britain’s Palestine Mandate (acquired after the defeat of the Ottoman Turks in 1917)
Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
The world was changing and the people of India were clamouring for independence.
Charles Amjad-Ali
Introduction
The State of Israel makes several different claims for its legitimacy and foundational right.
Fayyaz Baqir
Pakistani state: an overdeveloped or unevenly developed state?
Pakistan is passing through the last round of primitive capitalist accumulation. It will entail converting subsistence agriculture into corporate farming and converting a majority of the rural workforce into wage labour.