Murtaza Shibli
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Fixing Pakistan: Possibilities and the Architecture of Despair | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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The question of whether Pakistan can be fixed is no longer a philosophical indulgence. It is the brutal arithmetic of daily survival for 240 million citizens trapped between predatory inflation, collapsing livelihoods, and the unrestrained violence of an army that should have been dismantled the day it capitulated in Dhaka. That moment — a military surrender so total, so shame‑soaked, so morally disfiguring — should have reset the trajectory of the so‑called “land of the pure.” Instead, it accel
The Unyielding Spirit of Showkat Nawaz Mir | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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Somewhere in the 1960s, when Habibullah Mir migrated from the Indian side of Jammu Kashmir across the Line of Control to the Pakistani side, he must have felt a certain relief — for himself and for the future he hoped to build. Many committed supporters of the Jammu and Muslim Conference, the party that advocated ilhaq‑e‑Pakistan, had a difficult time living in Jammu and Kashmir, then ruled by Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah — a former Muslim Conference member who later founded a more inclusive politic
100 Days of Defiance in Rawalakot: The Kashmiri Spirit Pakistan Cannot Kill | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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For one hundred days, Rawalakot has lived under an iron siege. And that’s not a metaphor, but literal encirclement by one of the world’s most militarised states. A town of teachers, farmers, students, shopkeepers has been cut off from food, medicine, communication, life’s basic rhythms. Yet through bullets, starvation, and terror, Rawalakot stands. The Kashmiri spirit refuses to kneel.These hundred days are no mere chronicle of brutality. They are a testament to a people insisting on dignity whi
Jamaat-e-Islami, JDF and beyond: Reimagining the Islamist politics in changing times | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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The ongoing public rupture within Jammu and Kashmir’s banned Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) is far more than an internal squabble over property or ideological purity. It represents a historic crossroads for a movement that has shaped the Valley’s socio-political landscape for over eight decades, and a potentially transformative opening for India’s long-term stabilisation strategy in Kashmir. The dispute pits the old guard, symbolised by those led by the former chief Ghulam Mohammad Bhat, against the pote
Pakistan’s Latest Shame: The Expulsion of Afghan Medical Students and the Moral Bankruptcy of the Generals | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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The spectacle of a state turning its venom on the young and the vulnerable is always a tell-tale sign of a regime that has run out of arguments, legitimacy, and decency alike. Pakistan’s latest shame, however, plumbs the depths that even its most cynical observers might have thought unreachable. What unfolded in early September was not a bureaucratic misstep, nor a misunderstanding, nor a policy oversight. It was a deliberate act of cruelty—a state-sponsored humiliation of Afghan youth whose onl
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