Aasim Sajjad Akhtar
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
In recent years, Baloch, Pakhtun, Sindhi and even Punjabi dissidents have been seen as the target of state repression.
Updated 25 Dec, 2020 08:08am
On both sides, the farmers have faced repression.
Published 11 Dec, 2020 08:07am
The ‘Big Men’ brand has its roots in the colonial regime.
Published 27 Nov, 2020 07:33am
The US and Pakistan can’t seem to get enough of each other.
Published 13 Nov, 2020 06:36am
Augusto Pinochet and Ziaul Haq set into motion processes that have deeply polarised society.
Updated 31 Oct, 2020 08:25am
More popular unrest can be expected.
Published 16 Oct, 2020 07:42am
The narcissists who rule us are not anomalies.
Updated 02 Oct, 2020 09:27am
A small spark can spiral into a raging inferno.
Published 18 Sep, 2020 07:21am
