Aasim Sajjad Akhtar
In recent days, Pakistan’s reputation of being a country at war with itself has been reinforced.
Updated 31 May, 2019 07:57am
We put public services on the chopping block.
Updated 17 May, 2019 07:32am
These ‘working people’ have taken on other concerns.
Published 03 May, 2019 06:57am
Everything, it seems, is a ‘foreign conspiracy’.
Published 19 Apr, 2019 07:01am
Every political regime here has spewed the same rhetoric.
Updated 05 Apr, 2019 09:50am
It is unlikely that this wave of nationalism will last forever.
Updated 23 Mar, 2019 12:34pm
Men do not own feminist struggles as their own.
Published 08 Mar, 2019 06:41am
They write and rewrite history to create pliant populations.
Published 22 Feb, 2019 07:33am
Progressives in Pakistan tend to veer between two extremes.
Published 08 Feb, 2019 06:56am
The voice of the system’s real losers has been muted.
Published 25 Jan, 2019 06:56am
The fallout is now increasingly centred in countries like ours.
Published 11 Jan, 2019 06:58am
Does the contemporary state really want to rid the world of terrorism?
Updated 31 Dec, 2018 09:44am
The trope of security will become even more powerful.
Published 14 Dec, 2018 06:56am
Dents can be made in the hawkish attitudes of Pak-India officialdom.
Published 30 Nov, 2018 07:22am
The illegality of the rich is almost always glossed over.
Published 16 Nov, 2018 06:45am
Reactionary forces are gaining ground everywhere.
Published 02 Nov, 2018 07:06am
There is a crisis of survival and of human agency.
Updated 19 Oct, 2018 08:29am
The poor continue to be left by the wayside.
Published 05 Oct, 2018 07:08am
One is inclined to think that it all doesn’t really matter.
Updated 21 Sep, 2018 10:45am
Political will is needed to give security of tenure to katchi abadi dwellers.
Published 07 Sep, 2018 07:03am