The growing insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is worrying. In two different incidents on Monday, students became the prime victims of attacks by the militants in Swat.
One of Pakistan’s southern provinces, Sindh, however, is bracing itself for the worst to come as the country deals with catastrophic floods. Deluges from swollen rivers are heading for lower-lying areas, threatening more misery for millions.
Religious fundamentalism is rampant in societies that lack creative and critical thinking in their educational structures, and is often used as a political card in countries like Pakistan.
This excerpt from Ali Raza’s scholarly work on the history of Left in South Asia, ‘Revolutionary Pasts; Communist Internationalism in Colonial India’ posits the centrality of anti-imperial narrative in the agenda of the Third International.
Living up to their rationale, capitalists are once against feeding off the miseries of others. They are infamous for their vicious and heartless art of turning a crisis into a strategic advantage for further accumulation of wealth.
The torrential rains have devastated the country and ripped peoples’ lives. The poor and helpless are bearing the brunt of climate change, fueled by unplanned growth and development in the country.
Sindh has lost an enormous chunk of forest cover over the past few decades. The coastal belt in Sindh or the Thatta belt or the Indus belt is dramatically shrinking on account of mangrove deforestation.
We are still living in a country which is not free. We are the slaves of those who are in power. The unfortunate thing is that we don’t even have the freedom to speak out against the beasts who are sucking the blood of the common people of our country.
