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March 20, 2025March 20, 2025 thehighasia

Pakistan in peril: economic ruin and militarisation of society

Democratic decentralisation such as granting ownership of resources to the people of Balochistan, Pakhtunkhwa, and internal autonomy, self-rule to Gilgit-Baltistan, could mitigate extremist militancy and separatist impulses

December 30, 2023January 1, 2024 thehighasia

Polls-2024: LDF to back component parties’ candidates

Over two dozen candidates from LDF component parties — 2 from the HKP, 9 from the AWP, 10 from AT,

September 10, 2022September 10, 2022 thehighasia

Tajik authorities intensify crackdown on Pamiris

Since July, the courts have handed down more than 5,000 verdicts with heavy sentences against members of a Shiite Ismaili

August 8, 2022August 8, 2022 thehighasia

Anti-imperialism and night where all cows are black

Imran Khan’s politics is a turbo-charged neoliberalism… a shallow ideological cocktail of religion, patriotism, and praetorianism.

August 8, 2022August 14, 2022 thehighasia

Venal ruling class

By Dr Aasim Sajjad Akhtar It is all so predictable. The raids on homes of opposition leaders and workers. Heavy-handed

July 11, 2022July 11, 2022 thehighasia

Race, culture, terrorism and ‘deep structures’

Akbar Ahmad and Noam Chomsky examine examine issues of race in America which engender different forms of violence and terrorism. While race is on the surface of society, understanding how it related to society’s deeper structures can help make sense of it. It is the failure to tackle race issues that is partly responsible for the turbulence in contemporary American society.

June 25, 2022June 25, 2022 thehighasia

A look at democracy

By Naazir Mahmood The National Institute of Pakistan Studies (NIPS) at the Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad is a rare centre of

May 8, 2022May 11, 2022 thehighasia

Undermining the people’s will

The book covers one manifestation of authoritarianism as defined by the author and follows a set structure. There is a historical overview — in some instances beginning from the colonial era — consisting of key events which illustrate the issue.