Volume 6, No. 3, March 2024
Editor: Rashed Rahman
Rashed Rahman
This new year was preceded by the 49th anniversary of the bloody birth of Bangladesh out of the ashes of East Pakistan on December 16, 1971..
Professor Dr. Maqsudul Hasan Nuri
Many writers have developed hypotheses on the nature and pattern of the Soviet-Cuban relationship in Africa as demonstrated through the conjoint military operations ..
Manzurul Haq
Since its latest rebirth, this time emerging suddenly as the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf’s (PTI’s) star project, the Ravi River Development Scheme has been touted as a harbinger of a bright future for the country, especially for the city of Lahore..
Left unity, PDM’s positives and limitations, PTI’s anti-worker policies
In this issue we carry a Joint Declaration of three Left parties, the Mazdoor Kissan Party (MKP), Awami Workers ..
Professor Dr. Maqsudul Hasan Nuri
The ‘proxy’ or ‘patron’ character of Cuban-Soviet relations (1975-1980) is much commented upon..
The Mazdoor Kissan Party (MKP), National Party (NP) and Awami Workers Party (AWP) met on November 14-15, 2020 in Lahore and, at the end of two days of deliberations issued the following Joint Declaration..
Delusional States: Feeling Rule and Development in Pakistan’s Northern Frontier
Dr. Nosheen Ali
Nosheen Ali’s ambitious, wide-ranging, and passionately polemical book begins with a remarkable claim..
PDM and Left’s role
The opposition’s 11-party alliance the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) reflects a familiar pattern in Pakistan’s history..
Dr. Nichola Khan
Prof. Stephen M. Lyon:Political Kinship in Pakistan(Lexington Books, 2019)
Stephen Lyon’s fascinating book uses the lenses of descent lineage and marriage to demonstrate the ways in which “one part of the world both establishes and resists control over groups of people” (p.1)..
Professor Dr Maqsudul Hasan Nuri
‘High politics’ comprises foreign relations and ‘low politics’ domestic affairs, with intermixing of the state-centric view and the transnational..