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Revisiting India and Pakistan Perpetuated Animosities
Leaders to See the Mirror History exists on facts of life and shallowness of a nation’s history are the inept and egoistic leaders. In wars, logic fails to define foes and friends. India and Pakistan have an enriched history to blame games for their failure to preserve freedom, security and the ideological foundation of their […]
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The Battery Belt: When the Sun Touches the Silk
Nako Dost Muhammad (image on left) had never heard the hum of a fan. Living in a village named Kolahu in Tump, a tehsil in district Kech tucked between dusty hills and near the edge of the Iranian border, Nako’s life has been cloaked in darkness. Since 2016, the electricity connections in their village had […]
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Faith, Fear, and Fire: The Muridke Massacre and the Struggle with Non-State Actors
The October 13 Muridke incident has left Pakistan shaken once again. The violent clashes between security forces and supporters of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) turned a planned religious procession into one of the deadliest confrontations since the Faizabad sit-in. What unfolded in the small Punjab town was more than a law-and-order breakdown; it revealed Pakistan’s deepening […]
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Stolen Democracy: Why Imran Khan Was Jailed
The imprisonment of Imran Khan is now a subject occupying the ground and shifting the mood of Pakistan in reaction. With his party symbol taken away and being surrounded by hundreds of other lawsuits, Khan continues to dominate conversations at the market stalls, tea stalls, and social media feeds. For many, he is an icon […]
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When the Earth Heats Up: Zunaira Baloch and the Human Cost of Climate Change in Balochistan
They say only bad news from Balochistan makes the headlines–Pakistan’s largest and most impoverished province marred in a decades long insurgency. The local newspapers are flooded with the news of people being killed in bomb blasts, target killings and the loss of lives in incidents of terrorism. However, amid this backdrop of turmoil, a problem […]
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The Tragic Tale of a Flower that Wilted too Soon (Part 2 of 2)
Ruttie Jinnah and M.A. Jinnah IMAGE/Dawn Read Part 1. Drugs Ruttie’s rush to dash off to Paris was to get drugs. Mrs. Naidu’s letters from Paris and New York to Padmaja make that clear. While in Paris in 1929, Mrs. Naidu incidentally discovered from a princess (cousin of queen of Italy), who knew Ruttie, the […]
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As Biden Leaves Office, the US Empire is Desperate to Maintain Its Hegemony
This November, US president Joe Biden will leave office with the world in turmoil and US fingerprints on the bodies of untold thousands across the globe: in Gaza and Lebanon, Yemen and Syria, Cuba and Venezuela, Pakistan and Haiti, and elsewhere. While Biden attempted to cast his foreign policy actions as defending “democracy” against “authoritarianism,” […]
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Military Rule and the Disappearing Critics
Democracy can be considered a commodity with multitude of varieties. Each elite ruling class claims theirs is the best suitable for its people, and thus imposes it on them. Mind you, not pure democracy — government of the people, by the people, for the people” — because that would amount to nothing less than socialism. […]
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At the Edge of Apocalypse
Biblical flooding, scorching heat, collapsing grid system, animals crumbling, waters rising, crops wilting, economy on the brink, and millions displaced. Welcome to the future of climate change… Pakistan. If one could classify a global warming beta test as a success towards an ultimate goal of apocalypse, unfortunately, it has turned Pakistan into a country populated […]
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