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This domain name is not controlled by the Pakistan government. The maulanas are getting wise to it, the militants are catching on, the porn-freaks love it, the movers and shakers

By The Editors

/ 1 Jan 1998

Postcards from Pakistan

Satellite television is reaching out, but the target audience is still Indians. It´s 11:30 on a lazy Sunday morning, India time, and if you want to look over

By Harish Khare

/ 1 Jan 1998

The prime ego

The political crisis that engulfed Pakistan in November-December overshadowed all other matters in this country for weeks on end. Some saw it as a rank tussle for power between the

By The Editors

/ 1 Jan 1998

RAW WOUND

The leaking of the "interim report" of Justice M.C. Jain, who constituted the one-man commission to investigate the death of Rajiv Gandhi, has suddenly changed the course

By The Editors

/ 1 Jan 1998

By mid-December 1997, Pakistani investigators must prove that the money in four Swiss bank accounts frozen in September by the Swiss government, was misappropriated by Benazir Bhutto from the government

By The Editors

/ 1 Dec 1997

Telling It As It Was

The Year That Was edited by Ishrat Firdousi Bantu Prahashan, Dhaka, 1996 Truth destroys all rosy notions of what a remembered war should be. War becomes a time where the

By Beena Sarwar

/ 1 Dec 1997

Films in Search of a Movement

A study of the history of the documentary film in South Asia, including the advances made after independence in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Seated among the enthralled audience

By Mitu Varma

/ 1 Dec 1997

MQM by any other name

The Mohajir Qaumi Movement (MQM) announced on 26 July that it was changing its name to Mutahida Qaumi Mahaz (United National Movement). The proposal is not new. It was first

By The Editors

/ 1 Sep 1997

Fifty Something

Now that the breathless television extravaganza of the 50th anniversary of Independence of India and Pakistan is over, we can perhaps take a more sober look at the past half-century.

By The Editors

/ 1 Sep 1997

Sharbahara: Class Hatred in Rural Bangladesh

What started out as class war on behalf of the proletariat has degenerated into gang war in support of landlords and petty politicians. Maoism is no longer flagging its little

By Afsan Chowdhury

/ 1 Sep 1997

Psyche Warfare

Talks between India and Pakistan are periodically resumed and abandoned, with both sides fixated in their positions and little hope for reconciliation. Rather than throw one´s hands up in

By Manzur Ejaz

/ 1 Jul 1997

Tarnished Rays of 1947

Anniversaries are useful occasions as a way to remind us of the values that are enshrined in our history. The golden jubilee year of Indian and Pakistani independence, 1997, is

By Vijay Prashad

/ 1 Jul 1997