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Katchi abadi case

Katchi abadi case

The law is far from emancipatory for the working class.

31.01.2025 50

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Aasim Sajjad Akhtar

Will the fire cease?

No friend of the Palestinians should harbour any delusion.

17.01.2025 80

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The corporate grab

MANY amongst the Pakistani intelligentsia claim that colonialism is dead. They say we should take responsibility for problems that we have created...

03.01.2025 10

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Greek tragedy

AMONGST the biggest stories of 2023 was the stranding and eventual capsizing of a boat in the Mediterranean carrying hundreds of people trying to...

20.12.2024 6

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Sowing hate

THE dust had barely settled on the crackdown by the state’s coercive apparatus against the PTI on the night of Nov 26 that the ruling regime...

06.12.2024 10

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Killing fields

WHILE the PTI-run government in KP continues to depict itself as the last remaining bastion of democracy in the country, pitched against the...

22.11.2024 3

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Which ideology?

OF all the congratulatory messages which poured in from the world’s political leaders when it became clear that Donald Trump had, in the end, quite...

08.11.2024 2

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America’s president

NOT so long ago, America’s president effectively enjoyed the mantle of world leadership. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992 had elevated the...

25.10.2024 10

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Punjab has the key

TO say that Punjab is Pakistan’s heartland is to state a simple fact. Even if one were to separate the Seraiki belt from the administrative unit...

11.10.2024 20

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Cultural resistance

MOB lynchings under the pretext of blasphemy have become commonplace. In exceptional circumstances, law enforcement officials intervene and take...

27.09.2024 10

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Privatisation myth

BEYOND sensational late-night arrests of opposition MNAs, impunity for abductors and unending intrigue, there is a remarkable degree of continuity...

13.09.2024 4

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The Baloch question

IT is not as if we have not been here before. Balochistan has bled for so long that the mainstream Pakistani consciousness has tuned it into the...

30.08.2024 10

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Freelancers for ruin

ANOTHER Aug 14 has passed by with familiar proclamations about the evil designs of the proverbial ‘foreign hand’. As usual, outside conspirators...

16.08.2024 3

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The class war

WORKING people in Pakistan are literally struggling to breathe. If they seek some relief from the heat by turning on a couple of fans and using a...

02.08.2024 3

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Aasim Sajjad Akhtar