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Dr Maqsudul Hasan Nuri

‘Far right’, ‘radical right’ and ‘extreme right’ are interchangeably used by scholars related to different shades of right populism. The phenomenon is increasingly dissected by scholars from the west.

Rafi Pervaiz Bhatti

“Oye Fraudio, Tussi Ithay Keeh Pai Karde Oh?” (Oh you scoundrels, what are you doing here?). My Principal in Punjab University Law College, Sheikh Imtiaz Ali, drove past us but reversed his car just to cut the teasing remark in Punjabi.

Vijay Prashad

On the last day of the BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, the five founding states (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa)

Charles Amjad-Ali

Aggressive territorial usurpation and expansion of settlements by Israel

The UN adopted Resolution 181 (also known as the ‘Partition Resolution’) on November 29, 1947. The Resolution envisioned that after Great Britain’s Palestine Mandate (acquired after the defeat of the Ottoman Turks in 1917)

Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur

The world was changing and the people of India were clamouring for independence.

Charles Amjad-Ali

 Introduction

The State of Israel makes several different claims for its legitimacy and foundational right.

Fayyaz Baqir

Pakistani state: an overdeveloped or unevenly developed state?

Pakistan is passing through the last round of primitive capitalist accumulation. It will entail converting subsistence agriculture into corporate farming and converting a majority of the rural workforce into wage labour.

Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur

History

Nationalism is not a factory-produced finished good. Like all social processes it is constantly evolving as economic relations and conditions, political ideals, awareness of history all contribute towards its growth or retardation…

Ashraf Jehangir Qazi

I have written several articles which are more explicit and frank than this one. But for reasons most readers will understand, newspapers are far less ready to publish such articles today.

Saulat Nagi

Experiences of the beleaguered Pakistani state show the country needs radical reforms.