Aasim Sajjad Akhtar
Many are disillusioned with the ‘Naya Pakistan’ narrative.
Updated 15 Oct, 2021 08:40am
A war-making machine earned the US lots of money.
Published 01 Oct, 2021 07:26am
An intellectually honest prognosis of our political economy for the working class makes for grim reading.
Updated 17 Sep, 2021 08:41am
An unprecedented process of dispossession is underway.
Published 03 Sep, 2021 08:01am
Freedom, dignity and equity are at greater risk.
Published 21 Aug, 2021 07:07am
In Pakistan the proverbial refugee — the vast majority of whom are Muslim — is viewed with utter contempt.
Updated 06 Aug, 2021 08:43am
It is essential to interrogate the wider epidemic of violence.
Updated 24 Jul, 2021 08:16am
We will literally be thirsting for water.
Published 09 Jul, 2021 07:09am
There is no shortcut, no quick-fix ‘counter-terrorism’ operation that will disappear all of the bigots and guns.
Updated 25 Jun, 2021 08:57am
Across the world, the politics of hate thrives because of economic crises endemic to capitalism.
Updated 11 Jun, 2021 08:28am
Ours is a regime of dispossession that cannot be divorced from a larger global political economy story of rapacious profiteering.
Updated 28 May, 2021 09:11am
The scenes from India are the latest reminder that capitalism’s crisis is worsening.
Updated 30 Apr, 2021 09:37am
Formal bans do not translate into substantial dents.
Updated 16 Apr, 2021 08:32am
We can’t imagine being a society that produces doctors like Cuba.
Published 02 Apr, 2021 07:56am
We can bring to the fore truths about a shared past.
Published 19 Mar, 2021 07:54am
Those demanding ‘azadi’ are moving society forward.
Updated 05 Mar, 2021 08:08am
Our tryst with enforced disappearances is old news.
Published 19 Feb, 2021 07:22am
Only grassroots movements with transformative potential can take solidarity politics to the next level.
Updated 05 Feb, 2021 08:45am
So long as invoking domestic and foreign ‘enemies’ is our ‘normal’, expect our tryst with praetorianism to continue unabated.
Updated 22 Jan, 2021 08:57am
Even where the machinations of the establishment are not as prominent, children of a lesser God can be found.
Updated 08 Jan, 2021 08:16am
