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Racial Nationalism, Subjectivities, and Class

It's interesting how, in an intellectual journey, one unlearns sometimes to learn anew, and then, at some stage, one relearns what they had unlearned earlier to learn again. Hegel once wrote about this kind of experience of a [sic] man who repeats the prayers he had once memorised as a child, but only with a lifetime of experience. The concept of the nation in Political Science resembles that man’s prayers about whom Hegel wrote. It is an exemplar of such concepts, at least in our anti-colonial history, when even class consciousness assumes imaginations of community/people/nation, i.e., political subjectivities. If class

Quetta sit-in at Koyla Phatak: A rallying cry for peace and resource sovereignty by Balochistan’s Pashtun masses

I have come to Quetta from Islamabad for the summer vacations. However, upon arriving in Quetta, I found out that opposite Quetta Cantt on Airport Road, near the BA Mall, a sit-in by the martyrs of Hanna Urak is underway. The next day, I learned that another sit-in has been started at Koyla Phatak against the brutal killing of police personnel in Ziarat. A few days ago, the organizers of the Hanna Urak sit-in announced the end of their protest after negotiations with the Balochistan government, while the sit-in against the martyrdom of police officers in Ziarat has been ongoing

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Life Sentences for Mahrang Baloch and Sibghat Ullah Shah Expose the Colonial Logic of Pakistan’s Hard State

Racial Nationalism, Subjectivities, and Class

Asfandyar Shinwari

Quetta sit-in at Koyla Phatak: A rallying cry for peace and resource sovereignty by Balochistan’s Pashtun masses

Razzaq Ghorzang