Dissent in dangerous times on November 29, 2018Political repression in Pakistan has reached atrocious proportions. The working poor, Baloch, Pashtun, progressive factions in this country, are victims of the most vicious and calculated forms of class, national and racial oppression, and bear the brunt of this repression. Along with hundreds of innocent men and women — including what in any other country […]
Naya Pakistan: repeating the past on September 28, 2018One is engulfed by a sense of shame when one sees politics being degraded by economics and political authority being humiliated by the business management cult. There is something pathetic when we see high officials of the current and previous governments reduced to a state of miserable loyalty; government ministers who are ready to compromise […]
From the fringes to the Faizabad interchange on December 1, 2017Let me recall that day of national shame six years ago, when the sitting governor of the Punjab province was killed by his security guard. When the killer, Mumtaz Qadri, later appeared before the court during case proceedings, we saw dozens gathered at the venue to shower the assassin with rose petals. It was the […]
The higher education crisis on November 4, 2017The current crisis of capitalism confronts students in the form of rising cost of education and a drastic decrease in immediate returns from a college degree. Not only is it harder to afford college education, but education expenses also leave students and their families in more debt and with limited job opportunities. A shrinking job […]