The working class must rise. Now.

I elaborate on each below, directly addressing young folks in particular

This brand of ‘freedom’ functions as a sleight of hand to manufacture consent for opportunistic political objectives

Over 22 million children between the ages of 5-16 are currently out of school in Pakistan

Indirect tax rates, however, rose from an average of 15% to 17% in the same period

The higher education landscape in Pakistan is dominated by a pathological politics of patronage

Markets cannot flourish if their access remains restricted to people with pre-existing financial capital

In Pakistan, civil society has — since at least the 80s — largely taken the shape of hyper-conservative collectives

A hard system reset seems increasingly unavoidable, and time is of the essence

To what extent to will the party push this on issues that have obstructed the blossoming of democracy in Pakistan