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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.

Social Power is built before it is seen

Vijay Prashad

While popular energy can fill streets and win elections, social power is the patient, organised capacity of the working class to transform society and make dignity the common sense of the age.

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.