Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement: Challenging the "War on Terror"
An interview with Ismat Shahjahan on the origins, aims, and trajectories of PTM.
“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?
Zinda Hain Tulba! / The Students Live!
An energetic national student movement re-emerges in Pakistan.
Selling Sufism: Qawwali and Coke Studio in Pakistan
Is Pakistan’s Coke Studio promoting Sufism or trading in Sufism Inc.?
Dispatches from the Valley: Kashmiris mark the 150th anniversary of Gandhi’s birthday with Satyagraha
Two months into the aggravated occupation of Kashmir, how are Kashmiris faring? Sociologist Nandini Sundar and lawyer Nitya Ramakrishnan report on their recent visit to the valley.
The Politics of Life Itself
An interview with Professor Mohamad Junaid on the current lockdown in Kashmir.
The Brown in Black Power: Militant South Asian Organizing in Post-War Britain
Militant South Asians refused to be “model minorities” and instead united with racialized communities to confront racism and capitalism in post-War Britain
Forum for Free Speech
Republished here is the founding statement of the Pakistan Forum journal (1970-73), which appeared in its first issue on October-November 1970.
Theorizing Pakistan in Diaspora: The Pakistan Forum
An interview with Mohammad Qadeer, former Associate Editor of Pakistan Forum (1970-73)
Desi America United
Highlighting a rich legacy of desi organizing in America, Iman Sultan traces her journey with activists and organisers emerging in a new Left movement.