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Dr Maqsudul Hasan Nuri

Introduction

There are varying types of populism. However, we can agree to an extent that if the brand of populism espouses good governance, equitable socio-economic development and vies to uphold democratic ideals, then it is a win-win for democracy rather than a threat, not the least because it ignites democratic activism in people via calls for ‘people’s power’.

Ashraf Jehangir Qazi

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On January 13, 2024, the Supreme Court of Pakistan – the last institutional resort for justice for the people and state of Pakistan – rendered a decision that has bitterly divided the legal community and public opinion.

Chris Hedges

Israel will appear triumphant after it finishes its genocidal campaign in Gaza and the West Bank.

Saeed A Malik

The roots of this genocide were planted a very long time ago and are embedded in the Jewish belief that they were the chosen people.

Akbar Notezai

In recent years, in the month of December, at the Almas Hotel located on the crowded Saddar Road in Karachi, a National Accountability Bureau (NAB) official arrives for a meeting with this correspondent.

Charles Amjad-Ali

Israel’s Apartheid

Over the last 30 plus years, criticism of the State of Israel has correctly morphed into seeing its continuous massive derogation of the rights of the Palestinian people as analogous to South Africa’s pre-1994 abhorrent apartheid system.

Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur

Changing economy and changed social and political consciousness

When I went to the Marri area in October 1971, it was a pastoral society. Apart from the few urban areas in Balochistan, the Marri area was a microcosm of Balochistan.

Charles Amjad-Ali

The Expulsion of Palestinians to Jordan: Palestine exclusively for the Jewish State

Over the years it has been argued that Israel wanted to expel the Palestinians from the Lebanese refugee camps and maintain a complete blockade of their return to Palestine.

The Disruptive effect of Orthodox Islam on Muslim Identity

Rafi Pervaiz Bhatti

Two centuries, the 17th and the 20th, are very important in the political struggle for dominance between the three classes of Indian Muslims, as elaborated in my first article titled “The Muslim Identity in the Subcontinent” (Pakistan Monthly Review, October 2023)

Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur

Although an amnesty was declared in 1970, the Farrars (rebels) of Marri area weren’t disbanded but continued as in the past and kept the government wary and unable to make any physical or political inroads into the Marri area.