Is Pakistan’s Coke Studio promoting Sufism or trading in Sufism Inc.?

On immigration, desi families, and being queer.

Republished here is the founding statement of the Pakistan Forum journal (1970-73), which appeared in its first issue on October-November 1970.

An interview with Mohammad Qadeer, former Associate Editor of Pakistan Forum (1970-73)

Pakistan’s military declared that their “time is up”, but the PTM will prevail – buoyed by its resilient women.

Mashal Khan is an inspiration for the unfinished resistance against creeping fascism on campuses and growing neo-liberalization of the education system in Pakistan.

In support of Afiya Zia’s secular feminism.

In Part II of our interview, Tariq Ali examines the afterlives of 1968 today: global youth insurgencies, anti-imperialist movements, and the tasks of the hour for the Left.

In Part 1 of this two-part interview, Tariq Ali reflects on his memories of the 1968 movement in Pakistan, arguably the only unequivocal success of the wave of protests that shook the world.

A review of Afiya Zia’s book, Faith and Feminism in Pakistan: Religious Agency or Secular Autonomy?

Acclaimed poet, playwright, satirist, and public intellectual Salman Haider presents his most incisive works on the casualties of war, nationalism, and other forms of state violence.

With a politicized Barelvism leading the recent protests against Aasia Bibi’s acquittal, has the Pakistani state’s romance with Barelvism, the supposedly soft and Sufi Islam, backfired?