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January 7, 2026January 7, 2026 thehighasia

سماجی شعور سے سیاسی صلاحیت تک ہنزہ کے مستقبل پرایک جدید مارکسی تجزیہ

تحریر: امین بیگ (مارکسی مکتبِ فکر — رفقا کی تنقیدی رائے کے لیے) ہنزہ کے بارے میں عمومی گفتگو چند

January 3, 2026January 3, 2026 thehighasia

Phantoms of Power: Part-III

Dissension and contradictions within its leadership mark the local narrative about the independence of Gilgit-Baltistan as subsumed.

December 18, 2025December 18, 2025 thehighasia

Phantoms of Power in Gilgit-Baltistan: Power and Pandemonium-II

By: Aziz Ali Dad The process of subjugation in Gilgit-Baltistan entails continuous emaciation of local society on the one side,

December 14, 2025December 14, 2025 thehighasia

Phantoms of Power in Gilgit-Baltistan-I

By: Aziz Ali Dad The region of Gilgit-Baltistan is characterised by linguistic, sectarian, ethnic, regional and cultural diversity. Historically, it

September 28, 2024September 28, 2024 thehighasia

The Anti-Colonial Marxism of Mahdi Amel

The Lebanese Marxist thinker Mahdi Amel was assassinated on this day in 1987. Amel developed a version of Marxism that was grounded in the experience of colonized societies, showing how class struggle converges with the fight for national liberation.

August 13, 2022August 13, 2022 thehighasia

Imperialisms in our times

Making sense of ‘Chinese characteristics’. Is it time for the Pakistani Left to start talking about Chinese ‘imperialism’? by Aasim

March 10, 2022March 10, 2022 thehighasia

Aijaz Ahmad, a Marxist philosopher passes away

News Desk Aijaz Ahmad, a world-renowned Marxist philosopher and political commentator, passed away at his California residence on Tuesday (March

November 5, 2020August 18, 2022 thehighasia

Gilgit-Baltistan — a land of unknowns

Amir Hussain It might have been a chilly Saturday with clouds of victory hovering over the defence lines of Gilgit

November 1, 2020August 18, 2022 thehighasia

Editorial: seven decades of disenfranchisement

More than 73 years since its independence, Gilgit-Baltistan remains subject to barely disguised colonial rule to await genuine enfranchisement. While

July 17, 2020January 24, 2025 thehighasia

Resisting power structures that keep colonialism alive

We must look at the roots of capitalism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and anti-Blackness to leave settler colonialism in the past. by LEANNE BETASAMOSAKE

July 13, 2020January 24, 2025 thehighasia

Decolonising aid, again

‘The unfinished business of decolonisation is the original sin of the modern aid industry.’ by Paul Currion This year calls

February 20, 2020February 20, 2020 thehighasia

Turning the table: empires and development concepts-II

The world is facing a growing disillusionment with current economic and political order that was historically erected through great games

January 20, 2020January 20, 2020 thehighasia

Protesters demand release of Baba Jan, 14 political prisoners

High Asia Herald Report LAHORE: A protest was held at Lahore Press Club on Sunday (19 Jan 2020) to demand

January 19, 2020January 19, 2020 thehighasia

In conversation with Chomsky: Pakistan, India, religion, and climate change–III

In this last installment of the three-part article based on correspondence between Hassan Mirza and Professor Noam Chomsky, the internationally-acclaimed