‘Let them eat cake’
What explains our debilitating impasse?
Aasim Sajjad Akhtar
The Punjab card
Mian Sahib is now biting the hand that once fed him.
Young, poor Baloch
The youth crisis is triggered by frustrated aspirations.
Divide and rule
Why haven’t we been able to overturn an unjust order?
We have a choice
At least some young people will be marching in Pakistani cities.
The long war
States certainly play cynical games.
Economic illusion
The debate on informality is reduced to polemic.
Hegemony unhinged
Hyper-nationalists were demanding a response, and in the revocation of Article 370, they got what they wanted.
The new normal
The new normal has been pushed even further to the right.
Fatima’s election
Back in 1965, Ms Jinnah was hardly a darling of the establishment.
World Cup healing?
The imperative of truth and reconciliation cannot be denied.
Of debt and war
The commission’s ToR only extend to probing the last decade.
Decolonise now
In recent days, Pakistan’s reputation of being a country at war with itself has been reinforced.
‘Bech de!’
We put public services on the chopping block.
Class politics 2.0
These ‘working people’ have taken on other concerns.
Who is sovereign?
Everything, it seems, is a ‘foreign conspiracy’.
Economy of fools
Every political regime here has spewed the same rhetoric.
Nation reboot
It is unlikely that this wave of nationalism will last forever.
Men must march
Men do not own feminist struggles as their own.
Killing history
They write and rewrite history to create pliant populations.