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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.

A counterintuitive view of the chessboard

Fayyaz Baqir

Fault lines of democratic politics in Pakistan

Democracy in Pakistan was never in the interests of the west. Pakistan inherited a predominantly anti-imperialist public opinion. During the Cold War years, the western empire led by the US wanted Pakistan to serve as a frontline state to stop the expansion of the communist ‘east’.

Noaman G Ali and Shozab Raza

From 1968 to 1978, the Mazdoor Kisan Party (MKP) was arguably Pakistan’s “largest and most militant party with a Marxist orientation.

Taimur Rahman

Pakistan has made international headlines repeatedly over the last year, unfortunately for almost all the wrong reasons.

Dr Saulat Nagi

“If you prick us, do we not bleed?” is one of the most powerful monologues delivered by Shylock in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice.

Stacey Philbrick Yadav

Since October 7, Yemen has made an unexpected return from the margins of global attention.

Fayyaz Baqir

My Ancestors

The River

My father Mohammad Baqir Khan was born in a village called Dab Kalan, on the west bank of the River Ravi, in Tehsil (Subdivision) Shorkot of District Jhang in Punjab.

Chris Hedges

The 20th century saw a great global uprising against European imperialism as the former colonial countries shook off their shackles and rose up for independence.

Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur

The confrontation between Nawab Akbar Bugti and the Pakistani state continued to exacerbate