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Dr. Maqsudul Hasan Nuri

The Russian invasion of Ukraine about four months ago has divided the world community amongst pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian alignments, with most nations remaining neutral or tentatively circumspect..

Rao Amjad Ali

US policy towards Pakistan has oscillated between suspicion and sanctions at one end, and showering money and generous praise at the other, a pendulum characteristic of a client state..

Into the muck

Noam Maggor

Capital and Ideology Thomas Piketty
translated by Arthur Goldhammer
(Harvard University Press, 2020).

Prof. Neelam Hussain

At first glance, as yet another book on the women singers of Pakistan, Fawzia-Afzal Khan’s Siren Song does not excite..

Rashed Rahman

In stark contrast with the 20th century that witnessed some three dozen revolutions, some successful, others not so, the dawn of the 21st century was ushered in in a climate of scepticism about the prospects for any further revolutions..

Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research

The Chinese communist base area of Yan’an was a literal and metaphorical stage for envisioning, experimenting, and building a new society and a new human being..

Gemini One of the persistent phenomena of human and legal rights violations in Pakistan is that of so-called ‘missing persons’. This is a euphemism for Enforced Disappearances, whereby citizens are spirited away to unrevealed detention locations for years on end without redress. The rough estimate of how many people have been ‘disappeared’ hovers between 5,000-7,000….

Finding the Enemy Within:Blasphemy Accusations and Subsequent Violence in Pakistan

by Dr. Sana Ashraf

Tony Wood The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, launched by the Kremlin after months of rising tensions, quickly generated a flood of casualties and several million refugees, as well as bringing the senseless destruction of cities and towns. A negotiated peace may yet bring it to an end. But amid the continued…

Vijay Prashad

Aijaz Ahmad (1941-2022) died at home on March 9, 2022, surrounded by his books and papers, and by the warmth of his children and his friends..