Why Balochistan’s Mama Qadeer is on Long March

Here they are in Karachi at Karachi Press Club: the 25 fam­i­lies – inclu­sive of females, elders and chil­dren as young as 7 years old – of miss­ing per­sons hav­ing trav­elled 780 kilo­me­ters on foot from Quet­ta for 26 con­sec­u­tive days.

On Long Marches and Revolutions

From last few years an epi­dem­ic is erupt­ing in Pak­istan, the epi­dem­ic of ‘long march’ and ‘rev­o­lu­tion’. Most­ly it is the mid­dle class which suf­fers from it. A blaz­ing rhetoric mobi­lizes mass­es with a surg­ing desire for ‘change’ last­ing not more than for a few days. Some ‘sage’ from the back chan­nels always exor­cis­es the […]