Articles by Aasim Sajjad Akhtar
IT has been 79 years since Pakistan was brought into being. Much water has passed under the proverbial bridge, but basic contradictions around national identity, resources and representation, and rela...
THE centre-periphery divide in Pakistan is as old as the country itself. Its contours may have changed over time, but it remains as acute as any of the major structural crises that afflict us.
At the ...
“There is no human activity from which every form of intellectual participation can be excluded: Each man carries on some form of intellectual activity, that is, he is a philosopher, an artist, a ma...
THERE is nothing novel about progressives in India and Pakistan advocating peace between the two countries. We have continued to swim against the hawkish tide which insists on forever war between fore...
FOR much of its existence, Islamabad has had the pride of place for Pakistan’s rulers, precisely because it is not the typical Third World megacity. Sleepy, green and as elitist as it comes, the Isl...
AGAINST overwhelming odds, Iran has won a defining battle in what is a long, historical war. Even if Israel’s unrelenting bombing of Lebanon scuppers the fragile ceasefire and talks scheduled in Isl...
TWO years in, the regime’s economic managers continue telling tales about streets flowing with milk and honey. Spin doctors live in an alternate reality by definition, but the extent of the spin is ...
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters” — Antonio Gramsci
THE more things change, the more they stay the same. China may have emerged as a p...
