FATAH

On the fifth anniversary of his passing, Fatah pays tribute to Syed Ali Shah Geelani, widely known as Bab, the supreme leader of Kashmir’s freedom struggle. For decades, Geelani stood at the forefront of the movement for Kashmiri self-determination, becoming a symbol of steadfastness, sacrifice and refusal to compromise. Kashmir has produced many iconic figures. It has…

Fatah strongly condemns and is deeply alarmed by the imposed Syrian Foreign Minister’s visit to Pakistan. Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani is a terrorist turned government official who was involved in the formation of al-Nusra Front in Syria. His rehabilitation amounts to little more than Noor Wali Mehsud putting on a suit, taking a government title, and declaring that he is no longer a…

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…