Pakistan

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

One hundred hours of solitude: A Pakistani peacenik recounts the India-Pakistan war
The India-Pakistan war is apparently over for now — but it has not stopped for peaceniks, recounts Farooq Sulehria.

Ceasefire just first step to justice and peace: An urgent call by Indian and Pakistani feminists
Feminists from India and Pakistan call for immediate de-escalation, dialogue, and justice in the wake of renewed hostilities between the two nations.

Poets vs hawks: War hysteria in India-Pakistan
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.

From the front line: A Pakistani socialist looks at the India-Pakistan War 2025
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.

[Updated] South Asian left statements: No to an India-Pakistan war, yes to de-escalation and peace
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.

World Bank and IMF — Keeping Pakistan in shackles
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.

Pakistan: As the old is dying, a new struggles to be born
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.