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

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

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?

An energetic national student movement re-emerges in Pakistan.

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.