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Who is sovereign?
Everything, it seems, is a ‘foreign conspiracy’.
Aasim Sajjad Akhtar
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.
Beyond the bubble
Progressives in Pakistan tend to veer between two extremes.
Elite vs people
The voice of the system’s real losers has been muted.
Darkness descends
The fallout is now increasingly centred in countries like ours.
Terrorism bogey
Does the contemporary state really want to rid the world of terrorism?
Orwell’s vengeance
The trope of security will become even more powerful.
Educating for peace
Dents can be made in the hawkish attitudes of Pak-India officialdom.
Encroach if rich
The illegality of the rich is almost always glossed over.
The bigot brigade
Reactionary forces are gaining ground everywhere.
The anthropocene
There is a crisis of survival and of human agency.
Austerity rules
The poor continue to be left by the wayside.
Chaos junkies
One is inclined to think that it all doesn’t really matter.
Five million homes
Political will is needed to give security of tenure to katchi abadi dwellers.
The middle muddle
The middle class did not bring the PTI to power.
The people speak
Those who want change must make themselves seen and heard.
A broken record
If this is Imran Khan’s dream come true, how will it unfold?