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Several Pakistani leftist writers, most notably Hamza Alavi, advanced the concept of the “overdeveloped state,” identifying the military and bureaucracy as the defining institutions of Pakistan’s political order and tracing their predominance to the colonial state. Alavi’s concept was an important intervention in explaining the institutional imbalance inherited by many post-colonial states.  In Pakistan’s case, it remains a…

Fatah pays tribute to Burhan Muzaffar Wani, commander of Hizbul Mujahideen and martyr of the Kashmiri resistance, on the tenth anniversary of his martyrdom at the hands of Indian Occupation Forces on July 8th, 2016. Born in 1994 in the town of Tral—a longstanding center of resistance in Indian-occupied Kashmir—Burhan joined Hizbul Mujahideen in 2010,…

Although Ba’athism belongs to a different ideological tradition from Marxism-Leninism, it deserves far more attention from the Pakistani left than it currently receives. Lenin himself did not confine his study to Marxist movements. He drew lessons from the Paris Commune, the Jacobins, and even Bismarck’s Germany because revolutionary strategy develops through the study of successful…