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QSF Protests Administrative Crisis at QAU, Demands Permanent Vice-Chancellor
QAU has been without a permanent vice-chancellor for eight months. Students want one appointed, and the acting administration’s decisions reviewed.
The Forward Review Report9 Oct
ANALYSIS
The Changing Dynamics of Healthcare Workers
Doctors, nurses and Lady Health Workers face a health system increasingly run by managers, contractors and budgets they do not control.
Muhammad Raiyd Qazi1 Oct
ANALYSIS
Colonial Shadows and the Evolution of Islamist Thought
Scientific miracles, Islamic systems and the drive to Islamize knowledge, read as responses to colonial rule.
Muhammad Raiyd Qazi26 Sep
ANALYSIS
The Job That Follows You Home
Faisalabad’s Christian sanitation workers have gained in income, housing and education. The stigma of the occupation has stayed.
Shehwar Fatima25 Sep
VERSE
The Stillness After
A poem on presence, departure, and the trail of blooms left behind.
Kizal Jafri22 Sep
IN DEPTH
Sindh’s Land, Sindh’s Rights: Is the Distribution of State Land Fair?
Two arrangements — 50,600 acres at Dhabeji and 52,713 acres for corporate farming — and the question of who state land is for.
Kashif Ali16 Sep
ANALYSIS
PIMS Tragedy: Rejecting Technocratic Authoritarianism.
Fourteen newborns died. The prescription that followed was managerial autonomy.
Riaz Ahmed7 Sep
OPINION
Capitalism Has Apparently Declined to Die.
On systems that survive their own funerals, and why organised students frighten them.
Iman Akhtar31 Aug
IN DEPTH
Got into LUMS? Here's your boarding pass.
On who gets to look meritorious, and the networks that carry a degree further than the degree does.
Alifya Lotia29 Aug
ANALYSIS
Arrangements: On Inherited Unfreedom in Pakistan.
Reading Thoreau, Alavi and Heidegger together on the state, the city, and the arrangements we never chose.
Syed M. Abubakar10 Aug
OPINION
The National Question, the Right of Self-Determination, and Socialist Politics.
On Lenin, Trotsky, and why the defence of self-determination is a prerequisite for working-class unity, not a rejection of it.
Muhammad Raiyd Qazi3 Aug
VERSE
The Wind of Death.
A poem on mortality as the opening of a door, and what the wind cannot carry away.
Muhammad Raiyd Qazi23 Jul
IN DEPTH
Empowerment, Offshored.
Pakistan's digital boom relocates dependency rather than dissolving it.
Syed M. Abubakar13 Jul
VERSE
I Will Quit Tomorrow.
A poem on habit, grief, and the promises we postpone.
Iman Akhtar2 Jul
OPINION
Identity: Discovery Or Deceit.
On growing, changing, and the accusation of hypocrisy that follows.
Iman Akhtar28 Jun
ANALYSIS
Beyond Paper Leaks: The Indian Left Cannot Afford to Ignore the Student-led NEET Movement.
Why Marxists must engage with the NEET movement, and what it reveals about the crisis of Indian neoliberal capitalism.
Muhammad Raiyd Qazi23 Jun
OPINION
A Field, Silent.
A witness account of a beating in a field, and the silence that made it unremarkable.
Hasan Raza Jafri22 Jun
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QSF Protests Administrative Crisis at QAU, Demands Permanent Vice-Chancellor
The Forward Review Report
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