Safdar Dawar | Voices
Tanqeed sat down with Safdar Dawar, the general secretary of the Tribal Union of Journalists (TUJ). Based out of Peshawar, the TUJ represents 300 journalists operating out of the Federally Administered...
View ArticleNot Talking About Pakistan
Questions about Pakistan are now a fact of living here, no different from damp weather or calls from salespeople. Some I deflect, and others I frame around my own terms. I drew a secret line around the...
View ArticleA New Humanism
English | اردو What motivates the desire for Third World solidarity is the shared history of oppression by a common oppressor. In 2009, a few academics, supported by long standing left-wing activists,...
View ArticleOn the Colony and Post-Colony
English | اردو Pakistan and Palestine have more in common than some in Pakistan care to recognize. Whenever I visit the United States, I find that Americans often mix-up Palestine and Pakistan. Their...
View ArticleOn Not Speaking of Palestine
English | اردو What shocked me was something I had not anticipated: the latent and sometimes overt hostility to Palestine solidarity and sympathy for Zionist propaganda. In 2009, I moved to Lahore for...
View ArticleThe Dharna the Demands
English | اردو The demands in Quetta should not be taken at face value. The army demand might have been a pressure tactic, while other demands were criticized by dissenting voices from within the...
View ArticleWhy Trouble Rules Balochistan
Governor's rule has multiplied the problems in Balochistan instead of fixing them.
View ArticlePolitics Interrupted
It won't get better than the unity of parliamentary parties against Tahir ul-Qadri’s disruption.
View ArticleBurying us Alive in Bara
It is time for the military to own up to its mistakes. Tell us what is going on. Anything less is political suicide.
View ArticleIssue III: Solidarity Politics
From Bara to Quetta to Palestine, we consider solidarity politics this month.
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