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Pakistan’s First Climate Prisoners: Baba Jan & Affectees of the Attabad Disaster
Pakistan, Issue 4, Essay Tabitha Spence 9/25/20 Pakistan, Issue 4, Essay Tabitha Spence 9/25/20

Pakistan’s First Climate Prisoners: Baba Jan & Affectees of the Attabad Disaster

Baba Jan and his comrades, Pakistan’s first climate prisoners, have led the charge for climate justice, ecological protection, and self-determination for over a decade.

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The Discolouration of “Green Growth” in Pakistan
Pakistan, Issue 4, Essay Sara Abraham 9/21/20 Pakistan, Issue 4, Essay Sara Abraham 9/21/20

The Discolouration of “Green Growth” in Pakistan

As “Green Growth” gains popularity among a range of political actors, a critique of the agenda’s growing currency in Pakistan and its worrying alliance with capitalist “development”.

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Green, Green Rocky Road: The Perils of Greenwashing Pakistan
Pakistan, Issue 4, Essay Usman Ashraf 9/6/20 Pakistan, Issue 4, Essay Usman Ashraf 9/6/20

Green, Green Rocky Road: The Perils of Greenwashing Pakistan

By rendering it a “technical problem”, Pakistan’s “greening” initiatives only exacerbate the country’s environmental crisis.

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Narrating a People’s History of 1971
Bangladesh, Pakistan, Book Review Alif Shahed 8/14/20 Bangladesh, Pakistan, Book Review Alif Shahed 8/14/20

Narrating a People’s History of 1971

A review of Anam Zakaria’s 1971: A People’s History from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India.

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Ecologies of Emancipation: The Mukti Bahini, Rivers and the Unravelling of Pakistan
Pakistan, Bangladesh, Essay Moiz Abdul Majid 5/2/20 Pakistan, Bangladesh, Essay Moiz Abdul Majid 5/2/20

Ecologies of Emancipation: The Mukti Bahini, Rivers and the Unravelling of Pakistan

Peasant guerrillas from the Mukti Bahini used their intimate ecological knowledge of Bangladesh’s waterways to liberate the country.

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Why are Healthcare Workers in Lahore on Hunger Strike?
Pakistan, Essay Zainab Afroze 4/19/20 Pakistan, Essay Zainab Afroze 4/19/20

Why are Healthcare Workers in Lahore on Hunger Strike?

Lack of testing and PPE has left healthcare workers at the mercy of COVID-19, while the government moves only to criminalize their protests.

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COVID-19 Comes to Polluted Lahore
Pakistan, Issue 4, Essay Umair Muhammad 4/18/20 Pakistan, Issue 4, Essay Umair Muhammad 4/18/20

COVID-19 Comes to Polluted Lahore

Lahore’s terrible air quality has prepared the ground for the novel coronavirus to do unspeakable amounts of harm. In coming out of this crisis, we must insist that the city’s deadly air pollution be cleaned up.

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Mystics, Mullahs, and Markets in Post-9/11 Pakistan
Pakistan, Essay Prateek Joshi 2/24/20 Pakistan, Essay Prateek Joshi 2/24/20

Mystics, Mullahs, and Markets in Post-9/11 Pakistan

Responding to Aliza Amin, Prateek Joshi questions the Musharraf-Mysticism alliance and defends Coke Studio.

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The Youth are Fleeing the Farms: Aspiration and Conflict in Kurram, Pakistan
Pakistan, Essay Sibth ul Hassan Turi 2/17/20 Pakistan, Essay Sibth ul Hassan Turi 2/17/20

The Youth are Fleeing the Farms: Aspiration and Conflict in Kurram, Pakistan

Hassan Turi explores the contradiction between agricultural labour shortages and youth unemployment in rural Pakistan.

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Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement: Challenging the "War on Terror"
Pakistan, Interview Tayyaba Jiwani & Ayyaz Mallick 2/2/20 Pakistan, Interview Tayyaba Jiwani & Ayyaz Mallick 2/2/20

Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement: Challenging the "War on Terror"

An interview with Ismat Shahjahan on the origins, aims, and trajectories of PTM.

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“We the (Seditious) People”: Repression and Revolution in South Asia
India, Pakistan, Essay Ammar Ali Jan 1/20/20 India, Pakistan, Essay Ammar Ali Jan 1/20/20

“We the (Seditious) People”: Repression and Revolution in South Asia

Colonial-era sedition laws used to criminalize dissent to protect imperial sovereignty. Now that “The People are sovereign” in independent India and Pakistan, why are they still being charged with sedition?

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Zinda Hain Tulba! / The Students Live!
Pakistan, Essay Ibrahim Buriro 1/9/20 Pakistan, Essay Ibrahim Buriro 1/9/20

Zinda Hain Tulba! / The Students Live!

An energetic national student movement re-emerges in Pakistan.

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