Revolt Against History…The Story of Punjab University’s Greatest Student Uprising

On 14 Nov. 2007 Pun­jab Uni­ver­si­ty wit­nessed a series of events that was unprece­dent­ed in the his­to­ry of the insti­tute.

Waging Non-Violent Action in Violent World

Imran Khan We live in an extreme­ly vio­lent world. States and transna­tion­al non-state actors use vio­lence to achieve their polit­i­cal and strate­gic objec­tives, believ­ing that use of vio­lence is the most effec­tive way to do so, notwith­stand­ing that it does not work most of the time. Only the last decade (2001–2011) saw 9/11 ter­ror­ist attacks, […]

An open letter to Imran Khan, Chairman PTI

Sheema Mehkar Dear Mr. Khan, Before I pro­ceed, please hon­or my request to call you Khan Sb like major­i­ty does. Khan Sb, with­out any hes­i­ta­tion I declare to be a proud sup­port­er of PTI. On May 11, 2013, I cast­ed my first ever vote to Imran Khan; for believ­ing in all what PTI made me […]

Playing the ‘Kaptaan’

Releas­ing this May is direc­tor Faisal Aman Khan’s ‘Kap­taan’ – a film based on the life of crick­eter-turned-politi­cian Imran Khan after retir­ing from the world of crick­et, enter­ing pol­i­tics and all the events that occurred in his life up to 2010.

‘Good looking Jamaat-e-Islami’

The Jamaat-e-Isla­mi (JI) has sig­nif­i­cant influ­ence in Pakistan’s domes­tic pol­i­tics due to its strong rep­re­sen­ta­tion in the media, its abil­i­ty to show street pow­er and its con­nec­tion with both the secu­ri­ty estab­lish­ment and mil­i­tant out­fits.