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Mohammad Ali Talpur

In my article “Testing Times” in Dawn I wrote about the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) seeking a huge slice of land in the Hingol Park for testing weapons.

Pakistan’s blackest day

Ashraf Jehangir Qazi

The night of October 20-21, 2024 will go down as the darkest moment yet in Pakistan’s sorry history. An unrepresentative parliament and a controversially elected government conspired with the military to savage the Constitution They have sought to constitutionally legitimate what has, in fact, been and continues to be military rule with all its dire consequences for the people and state of Pakistan.

Vijay Prashad

On August 8, 2024, a 31-year-old doctor at the RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata (West Bengal, India) finished her 36-hour shift at the hospital, ate dinner with her colleagues, and went to the college’s seminar hall to rest before her next shift.

Berch Berberoglu

Introduction

The resurgence of nationalism and ethnonationalist conflict in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union and its associated Eastern European states

The parliamentary façade

W B Bland

The coup of April 1953 represented a victory of the ‘Karachi’ landlord/comprador bourgeois clique and a defeat of the Bengal landlord/comprador bourgeois clique.

Peasant Warriors

Fayyaz Baqir

In 1975 during one of my visits to Lahore from Dera Ismail Khan (DIK), I was approached by Imtiaz Alam and Professor Zafar Ali Khan to join the Mazdoor Kissan Party (Worker Peasant Party).

Gwadar

Mohammad Ali Talpur

Gwadar has a number of advantages as a port; it is an all-year, all-weather deep channel port that could eventually handle the largest of oil tankers.

Global capitalist imperialism today

Rashed Rahman

Global capitalist imperialism has transformed its production structures/systems in such radical ways today that much of the earlier analyses relying on an examination of the aggregation of separate national economies and the trade and capital flows between them no longer serves to adequately explain 21st century reality.

Vijay Prashad

I have been in Caracas, Venezuela, for the past two weeks, before and after the presidential election on July 28, 2024.

State Secrets and Crimes

On August 7, 2024, in the latest episode of unrest over sexual violence in Israel’s prisons, a video of nine soldiers raping a Palestinian detainee was broadcast on Israel’s Channel 12.