Volume 6, No. 11, November 2024
Editor: Rashed Rahman
Saulat Nagi
“If you have tears,” Shakespeare says, “prepare to shed them now.” The electoral farce is over, but its spectre continues to haunt the Pakistani Praetorian Guard driven by an unquenchable desire to keep an iron-fisted control over Pakistan’s polity.
Fawzia Afzal-Khan
In what follows I will describe my journey through the pitfalls of US academia from my graduate student days in the 1980s to a tenured full professorship, and how I’ve experienced repeated attempts at silencing and censorship.
NSO launches itself
First Major Political Statement
Visit of American Student Delegation to Punjab University in Lahore
From November 1969 to December 1970 – when the first general elections were held in Pakistan – the National Students Organisation (NSO) found many strategic opportunities to demonstrate its power.
Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
Disappeared persons and Baloch response
Abdul Qadeer Reki aka Mama Qadeer had been sitting on token hunger strike outside Press Clubs in Quetta and Karachi since July 28, 2009.
Rashed Rahman
What were the distinctive political conditions that led to Third World Revolutions after WWII and in the era of decolonisation?
Bhutto factor: The Ascendancy of Liberal, Mystic, Ascetic Islam
Rafi Pervaiz Bhatti
In the previous three chapters (see Pakistan Monthly Review October, December 2023 and February 2024 respectively – Ed.) I have endeavoured to explain the conceptual position of the three distinctive classes of Muslim Identity in the Indian Subcontinent and their relative behaviour in the context of pertinent events in history. My narrative of personal experiences and observations in the next chapters have a direct relevance to the historical conceptual position explained in the previous chapters.
Changez Ali
It is the work of Marxists to assign to the proletariat and revolutionary working class a quality essential to them that is distinct from their material and historical position (the latter being taken at any particular moment in history and not the span of history as a whole).
The Frontier Corps (FC) and ground reality
Mohammad Ali Talpur
The Kharotabad (Quetta) incident of May 17, 2011 reflects the attitudes of the Frontier Corps (FC) and police in Balochistan and signifies the value they put on human lives.
The Years of Resistance
Fayyaz Baqir
In 1968, over 50 years ago at the time of this writing, I enrolled as a B.A. (Honours) student at Punjab University (PU) Lahore. This was the time when the student movement against colonial occupation, racial discrimination, class prejudices and sexual taboos swept the globe.
Ashraf Jehangir Qazi
Haal-e-chaman par talkh nawaee
Murgh-e-chaman kuchh iss se ziyada
(Bitter song on the state of our garden
Nightingale, say something more than this)
– Faiz Ahmad Faiz.
There is a view that even if the recent elections were stolen we should move on and make the best of a rotten situation in order to put the country on the path to recovery and progress.