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A memoir of the 1950s (Pakistan)

Eric Rahim

I start with some ‘pre-history’.

During the 1880s the economic landscape of Western Punjab (now part of Pakistan) was radically reshaped. Through a vast irrigation project, consisting of a network of canals, large tracts of arid and barren lands were brought under cultivation..

The Pakistani Revolution – VI

Land Reform and Basic Democracy

W B Bland

In keeping with the facade of presenting the military coup of October 1958 as a ‘revolution’, within two weeks of its establishment the military dictatorship appointed a Land Reforms Commission, headed by Akhtar Hussain, Governor of West Pakistan..

The Rise of Baloch Nationalism and Resistance – XVII

Are we Fascists?

Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur

Nationalists who demands rights that they are denied and against whom the state commits injustices with impunity are condemned out of hand even by the liberals who do not really care for the people’s rights..

From the PMR Archives: September 2019

Cultural Identity and State Oppression: Internal Colonialism in Pakistan

Dr Qaisar Abbas

Challenging the conventional wisdom, this article argues that colonialism never left South Asia as it transformed itself into internal colonialism after independence..

Tisaranee Gunasekara

Sri Lanka knows political turbulence. The island nation has survived, among other calamities, a twenty-five-year civil war, two insurrections, and pogroms..

The Economic pattern

W B Bland

The military dictatorship of the ‘Karachi’ clique had no wish to change fundamentally the colonial-type economic structure of Pakistan..

North America

Fayyaz Baqir

Starting in 1979 many progressive political activists, journalists, poets, artists and intellectuals moved to Western Europe and North America due to the repression of Ziaul Haq’s regime..

Imtiaz Alam

I wanted to respond to Fayyaz Baqir’s sham story of ‘armed propaganda’ in his previous instalment in this journal (Pakistan Monthly Review, November 2024, Fayyaz Baqir..

Jammu & Kashmir: The Pakistan Factor

Saleem Akhtar Malik

The recently held elections to the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Legislative Assembly indicate that India has failed in its strategic objectives on J&K..

Human Development Index and Balochistan

Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur

The figures on Human Development Index (HDI) regarding Balochistan are not forthcoming and even searches do not provide up to date figures..