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The Limits of National Identity

December 13, 2020December 16, 2020 News DeskEnglish, Features

by Fatima Shahzad 73 years after partition, Pakistan is still gripped by the conflict of creating an inclusive national identity, a fate it inherited given the ideology and conditions from which it came into existence. Time and again, we…

Our Struggle: ‘My parents sacrificed everything so that I could go to university’

June 14, 2020 News DeskFeatures

Haider Butt I was born in a poor household in a working class neighbourhood. It is adjacent to an industrial area so our neighbours were mostly factory workers and their families. My father was a trade unionist and a labour…

Commemorating Hobsbawm

June 14, 2020 News DeskFeatures

Fatima Shahzad On June 9, 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution, Eric J. Hobsbawm was born and he went on to contribute more to the study of the 20th century than perhaps any other historian. The main feature of his…

Book Review: A Case of Exploding Mangoes

June 14, 2020 News DeskFeatures

Hamza Waqas Mohammad Hannif is a critically acclaimed Pakistani author and journalist. His first novel, A Case of Exploding Mangoes (2008), was followed by Our Lady of Alice Bhatti (2011) and Red Birds (2018). All three novels were well received…

Black Panthers Resurface

June 7, 2020 News DeskFeatures

Shireen Rizvi explains why the Black Panthers have been flanking protestors in Black Lives Matter protests

From Being the Best, to Becoming the Worst: The Tragedy of PIA

May 31, 2020 News DeskFeatures

Salman Sikandar lists the tragic history of PIA plane crashes

Drama and Dissent

May 17, 2020 News DeskFeatures

Hamza Waqas and Amna Khan The past few years have witnessed a consistent rise in student activism across Pakistan. Engagement and expressions of solidarity with existing social movements have made student groups more inclusive and influential, gaining widespread support in…

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The Limits of National Identity

Our Struggle: ‘My parents sacrificed everything so that I could go to university’

Commemorating Hobsbawm

Book Review: A Case of Exploding Mangoes

Black Panthers Resurface

From Being the Best, to Becoming the Worst: The Tragedy of PIA

Drama and Dissent

Student-Worker Solidarity: Past, Present & Future

Student-Worker Solidarity: Resisting Subcontracting at LUMS

Exposed Outright: A Poem