Pakistan

As the dust settles after the latest clash between India and Pakistan, Ammar Ali Jan reflects on its wider significance.

The India-Pakistan war is apparently over for now — but it has not stopped for peaceniks, recounts Farooq Sulehria.

Dipankar Bhattacharya — Events from the terrorist attack in Pahalgam to the announced ceasefire have given rise to questions regarding India's national security and foreign policy.

Feminists from India and Pakistan call for immediate de-escalation, dialogue, and justice in the wake of renewed hostilities between the two nations.

Farooq Sulehria — While the hawks dominate the mosque and media in Pakistan, the hearts and minds of Pakistan’s ordinary people have always been captivated by her Dervish poets.

Ammar Ali Jan discusses the current India-Pakistan ceasefire deal, self-determination for Kashmir and steps towards peace in the region. 

Farooq Tariq — Many friends and comrades have asked if I think a full-fledged war is now erupting between two nuclear-armed neighbours. My reply has been that war has already started.

Statements by Jammu Kashmir National Students Federation, Communist Party of India Marxist-Leninist Liberation, Haqooq-e-Khalq Party (Pakistan), Southasia Peace Action Network, and Asia Europe People’s Forum on the escalating threat of an India-Pakistan war.

Joint statement by Indian and Pakistani peace activists and statements from the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation and Haqooq-e-Khalq Party (Pakistan) on the April 22 terrorist attack in Pahalgam and subsequent escalating tensions between India and Pakistan.

Farooq Tariq — Pakistani farmers and peasants are demanding accountability for the WB-IMF’s promotion of neoliberal and open-market economic policies that fuel hunger and inequalities.

Ammar Ali Jan — The accumulated contradictions of the Pakistani state have thus mutated into a full-blown crisis.

Ammar Ali Jan — Decades of economic, political and social neglect have now metastasised into a scenario that sees Pakistan seemingly heading down a blind alley.