Volume 6, No. 4, April 2024
Editor: Rashed Rahman
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..
Military dominance and the developing political struggle
The people of Pakistan can be forgiven for their present state of dissatisfaction that has still to find organised political form…
Professor Dr Maqsudul Hasan Nuri
The western Post-World War II paradigm of ‘realism’ is facing challenges in view of the changes in the international system…