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Modernity is a Fable

Modernity may be the name for our current historical epoch, allegedly characterised by unfettered progress, liberty, and the conquest of religion and superstition in the name of truth and science. But it is also a story, a fiction. Specifically, it is a fable – a linear morality tale: ultimate redemption in the face of, in…

ByOscar Guardiola-Rivera

The Global War on Terror

a. Satanic Cycle. Fourteen years ago, the United States and its allies began a major operation against al-Qaeda called the “Global War on Terror” (GWOT). That war, which is ongoing, began in Afghanistan but then expanded to include large swathes of the planet – from the Philippines to Nigeria. States, built after great sacrifice and difficulty,…

ByVijay Prashad

Open Letter Demanding the Release of Baba Jan and other political prisoners of Gilgit Baltistan.

Open Letter Demanding the Release of Baba Jan and other political prisoners of Gilgit Baltistan. On 25th of September 2014 Baba Jan and 11 other activists of Gilgit Baltistan were sentenced to life imprisonment by an Anti-Terrorism Court in Gilgit city. Baba Jan and the others sentenced, however, are not terrorists. He is a respected…

Balochistan: Between Dr. Malik and a Hard Place.

Image: Protesters demand the right to education in Balochistan. Dr. Malik Baloch, Chief Minister of Balochistan, in a recent talk with Dawn media group claimed that the security situation in Balochistan had improved and that there has been a drastic reduction in human rights abuses against the Baloch. As evidence for his claim he pointed…

As long as I shall breathe ( Atlantic ocean, Spring 2006)

I´ve tried to write a poem before I´ve tried to work on a poem like it was a quest of finding the right word to express the inexpressible and it was helpless as for summer rain to cool a Maui noon or quench the Earth in San Martín I have worshipped the lines Of…

ByVeronica Pamoukaghlian

“28th August: A Wake-Up Call for the Baloch”

Picture: The author with the son of Raza Jahangir. Raza Jahangir was killed by the Pakistani army on 14th Auguest 2013 and this father Bahktiyar was killed on 28th Auguest 2014. On 28th August 2014 around dawn a relative of my friend Sahib Jan Marri received a call from Sakrand police who told him that they…

ByMir Mohammad Ali Talpur

INTERVIEWS POLITICS

Exclusive Interview with Commander Dr. Allah Nazar of the Baloch Liberation Front

Dr Allah Nazar is Balochistan’s most popular middle-class nationalist leader. Belonging from a modest family in Balochistan’s town of Mashkay, he started his political career from Baloch Students Organization (BSO). He founded his own faction of BSO in February 2002 that openly advocated an armed struggle for liberating Balochistan. In 2003, he went underground to…

On Sindhi Culture

Below we present a speech by Mir Muhammad Ali Talpur on Sindh and its culture that was read-out on an occasion celebration Sindh Culture Day, in Dallas, Texas. Respected Ladies and Gentleman, I would first like to thank the organizers of the event for kindly according me the opportunity to talk to you on…

ByMir Mohammad Ali Talpur

INTERVIEWS POLITICS

The War on the Baloch: An Interview with Meerain Baloch

Qalandar Bux Memon: It has been widely acknowledged that the Pakistani establishment has used right-wing Sunni jihadi organisations as a way to counter Baloch insurgents, who are secularist in their philosophies. Would you agree with this statement, and what examples are there of the complicity between jihadis and the state? Meerain Baloch - Yes, that is…

ByMeerain Baloch

“Waae Watan Hoshken Daar”

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (December 13, 1797 – February 17, 1856) was a journalist, an essayist, and one of the most significant German romantic poets. A hundred years before Hitler burnt books which the Nazis thought were unpatriotic and subversive he had said that, “Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human…

ByMir Mohammad Ali Talpur