Volume 6, No. 5, May 2024
Editor: Rashed Rahman
Gemini
On November 29, 2019, students all over Pakistan came out in the second edition of a Students Solidarity March..
Rashed Rahman
Since Mao Tse Tung’s demise in 1976 and Deng Xiao Ping’s rise to paramount leader in 1978, China has been transformed in ways that have won open and enthusiastic acclaim by the capitalist world and even (sometimes grudging) admiration by Leftists globally..
A quasi-military regime
At long last, after 22 years of trying to win with the help of the military establishment, when Imran Khan and his party, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI), were brought to power through the rigged 2018 elections by that same establishment, little did he or his..
Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
A few years back a few friends had asked me to say a few words on “Why politics is necessary for students”. And this is what I came up with and am sharing it as there is a surge in students’ demands for their rights and the freedom to organise..
Ammad Malik
The Turkish army’s overt military intervention in Syria marked the latest chapter in the Kurds’ century-long history of struggle. The military incursion was preceded by Donald Trump’s much criticised decision to withdraw US troops stationed in Syria to combat ISIS fighters..
Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
Censorship and repression are the last refuge of tyrants with shaky foundations. They simply neither have the self-belief nor the acumen to understand that the true strength of any system lies with the people. All they are good at is antagonising the sovereign (the people) and ending up invariably and inevitably being defeated by them. History is testament to this fact..
Uncertainty galore
The dharna (sit-in) by Maulana Fazlur Rehman and his party Jamiat-ul-Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) continues in Islamabad, with fitful attendance/representation by the leadership of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP)..
Javed Masud
The country today is facing multiple challenges and prospects of a turnaround do not appear promising. The government of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf ..
Ammad Malik
The recent wave of surprise protests1 in Egypt present a rare challenge to Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s iron rule. The demonstrations were sparked by videos..
Jamison C. Heinkel and Richard deVillafranca
In early 2012, the Chairman of the US House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations convened a hearing on Balochistan(1) and, in a Sense of Congress resolution, called on Pakistan to recognise..