Progressive Students Collective is holding Students Solidarity March on 26th November across Pakistan. Students Solidarity march is held annually to demand an end to the ban on student unions, functional Harassment Committees on Campuses and access to education for everyone including fees reimbursements and scholarships. Student Unions were banned in 1984 by the then Military…
Langston Hughes was born in 1902 to a family of abolitionists in ‘Joplin Missouri, USA’. Hughes is remembered as one of the leading literary figures of the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, and politics centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York…
Ehtesham Hassan As Kabul fell to Taliban on August 15 2021, there were overt and covert celebrations across Pakistan. Almost all sections of Pakistani society took this as a positive development and considered it as a victory of Islam over infidels. One wonders why despite knowing the brutalities of Taliban, Pakistanis want a primitive, brutal…
Anam Zahra During the pandemic, China emerged as a strong player in global politics. The world cannot deny the impact of China’s contemporary economic growth with political grip over the leading trade routes and growing military expenditures to secure its borders. China is also prominent with its international diplomacy and economic partnership with emerging economies…
Abdul Rehman Why are thousands of people worried about the future of capitalism? Their favorite question is will capitalism survive? The answer is yes; but not in the way we are practicing it. The first and foremost thing is to ask why do people question the moral legitimacy of capitalism? Rebecca M. Henderson – a Harvard…
By: Asif Somairi The US mission in Afghanistan and its sudden collapse have devastated the political and economic atmosphere of Afghanistan. On 15th August 2021, Taliban insurgents besieged the capital territory of Afghanistan and took control in a very short period. The then President Ashraf Ghani fled to Uzbekistan and then to UAE by a…
Qaiser Javed The State of Jammu and Kashmir has been a disputed territory since the division of the subcontinent. The world has witnessed a great movement in the territory for freedom but growing state repression from India and exploitation of religious sentiments by Pakistan has always obstructed the indigenous movement. In the 1990s when the…
