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INTERVIEWS POLITICS

Mohammad Hanif on the Media and Baloch Long March: An Interview with Asif Magsi

Below we present a transcript of an interview carried out by phone with writer and jounalist Mohammad Hanif. Asif Magsi: You have written extensively about the issue of missing persons in Balochistan, what made you write on this issue? Hanif: I haven’t written much, I think in total I have written about 08 to 10 pieces,…

ByMohammad Hanif

“Why do they fear books?”

"The Baloch should acquire what colonizers call subversive education because the education that colonizers provide can only pollute minds and blunt the will for liberty" On 13th January the Frontier Corps (FC) of Balochistan raided a book fair being held at Atta Shad Degree College Turbat dispersing students anxious to get books for reading and confiscating books…

ByMir Mohammad Ali Talpur

On Contemporary Pakistani Art – An Interview with Hammad Nasar

Below we present an interview with curator Hammad Nasar which featured in Naked Punch issue 10 . Hammad Nasar is a curator and writer, and co-founder of Green Cardamom, a not-for-profit organisation with a focus on art from South Asia and a commitment to exhibition-led enquiry. He was a Fellow of the UK’s Clore Leadership Programme and…

The State vs The People – Notes on the History of Pakistan

'Masses are known to have wrought miracles in history; nothing is beyond them'. No entity, group, nation or state whatever the basis for its creation or existence can have priority over the intrinsic rights of the people it integrates to itself for supposedly higher and noble aims. Imposition of languages, culture, ethics and values however…

ByMir Mohammad Ali Talpur

Philosophy POLITICS

“Practice First, Then Theory:” The Zapatista Little School Shares Lessons Learned During 19 Years of Self-Governance

The first night of my homestay during the Zapatista Little School, my guardian and her husband asked if their students had any questions. My classmate and I both had experience working with the Zapatistas, so we politely limited ourselves to the safe questions that are generally acceptable when visiting rebel territory: questions about livestock, crops,…

ByKristin Bricker

INTERVIEWS POLITICS

“Dirty Wars. The world is a battlefield”: An interview with Jeremy Scahill

Jeremy Scahill found his way into journalism by volunteering at the independent news channel Democracy Now! where he assisted the investigative journalist Amy Goodman. His apprenticeship with Amy Goodman put Jeremy Scahill on good ground and he soon covered stories all over the world, predominantly in conflict zones like Iraq. The defining story and reason for his…

ByJeremy Scahill

Balochistan’s Leaderless Resistance

In April 2010, Baloch guerilla commander Dr Allah Nazar gave a ceremonious reception to Jagoo at a Balochistan Liberation Front’s (BLF) camp in Balochistan’s Awaran district. Those BLF fighters, who hadn’t seen Jagoo before, gossiped in hushed tones about his identity. “He fixed a machine gun. A bullet had been stuck inside the gun and…

BySajid Hussain

INTERVIEWS POLITICS

The Philosophy of Liberation: An Interview with Enrique Dussel (Part I)

Enrique Dussel invites me in through the black gates that lead to his office at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma Mexicom. I am 45 minutes late but he wants to put time aside for me despite my delay. “You have come all the way from Pakistan after all,” he says. “It would be a shame if…

ByEnrique Dussel

“Benefit of Doubt”: On the Murder of Dalits and the Baloch

On October 9, 2013 a division Bench of the Patna High Court (PHC) absolved all the 26 persons of Ranvir Sena (RS) accused of massacre of 58 Dalits, including 27 women and 10 children in Laxmanpur Bathe village in Bihar's Jehanabad district on December 1, 1997of all the charges; 16 of them had been awarded…

ByMir Mohammad Ali Talpur