South Asia

India Pakistan war

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.
Citizens share a box of sweets and hold up posters celebrating the success of Operation Sindoor in Bengaluru on Wednesday

Pahalgam, Operation Sindoor and after: Lessons India must learn (plus: Pahalgam, Operation Sindoor, ceasefire: Pressing questions awaiting answers)

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.
Illustration: Pariplab Chakraborty.

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.
Chaudhry Faiz Ahmad Faiz

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.

Ammar Ali Jan (Haqooq-e-Khalq Party, Pakistan): ‘The wars we need to fight are against poverty, disease and authoritarianism’

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

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.
India Pakistan border

[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.
Rakhine

The unending storm: Conflict, power and survival in Myanmar’s Arakan state

The struggle in Arakan is not merely a local ethnic or sectarian clash but a microcosm of Myanmar’s broader civil war, where competing nationalisms, geopolitical interests and survival instincts collide.
Pahalgam terror attack vigil

The Pahalgam terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir: Questions the Modi government must answer

Dipankar Bhattacharya — The people must unite against fascist forces’ despicable attempts to sow further hatred and insist on holding those in power accountable to ensure the truth does not become another casualty of the Pahalgam tragedy.
India ambulance terrorist attack

[Updated] South Asian left statements on the Pahalgam terrorist attack and current India-Pakistan tensions

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.
April 22 Call CPIML Liberation

CPI(ML) Liberation: The Call of April 22, 2025

CPI(ML) Liberation — With the fascist offensive intensifying, the battle for democracy calls for greater unity, strength and determination. As revolutionary communists, we must play a vanguard role in this battle.
Founding of the LTTE in 1976. Image: Tamil Guardian

War and armed resistance in Sri Lanka: On the Tamil Eelam right to self-determination and peace in the Indian Ocean

Jude Lal Fernando — The Tamil Eelam liberation movement is not solely for the self-determination of the Tamil people in Sri Lanka, but also for peace in the Indian Ocean and the world.

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