1. After Pakistan's Election
   Against The Current vol. 133
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2008
   Throughout Pakistan the massive anti-Musharraf vote on 18 February, 2008 spoke volumes: We do not like the military dictatorship; we want Musharraf out.
2. Against Fundamentalism and Imperialism - Review
   Against The Current vol. 161
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2012
   A view of the inside forces in Pakistan.
3. Another peace activist, Raza Khan, goes missing in Lahore
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2017
   Raza Mahmood Khan, a Peace activist and social worker, went "missing" in Lahore on Dec. 2, 2017, shortly after he had organised a public discussion about a recent demonstration that ended in ignominious surrender to those seeking power in the guise of religion.
4. Banned in Pakistan
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2018
   Pakistan's decision to censor 'blasphemous' websites provides a new perspective on the attitudes of many Western liberals towards Charlie Hebdo.
5. Chasing a Mirage
   The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2008
   According to Tarek Fatah, "Morality is doing what is right, regardless what we are told; Religious dogma is doing what we are told, no matter what is right." Fatah argues that since Islam's advent, there have been two parallel strains of the religion that are in clash. The first "state of Islam" is a person's moral compass; the way Islam governs an individual's personal life. By contrast, the yearning for "an Islamic state" has been bloody and fruitless.
6. Climate Crisis Hits Pakistani Women
   Against The Current vol. 144
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2010
   Pakistan is among the countries that will be hit hardest in the near future by effects of climate change, even though it contributes only a fraction to global warming. The country is witnessing severe pressures on natural resources and environment. This warning has recently come from the mouth of Pakistan’s prime minister Yousaf Raza Gillani, who alarmed the countrymen by disclosing that Pakistan is the 12th most vulnerable country in the world to environmental degradation.
7. Connexions Library: Central and South Asia Focus
   Resource Type: Website
   First Published: 2009
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on central and southern Asia.
8. Covering Pakistan: How Journalists and Experts Reproduce Empire
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2010
   It appears irrelevant to many policymakers, journalists, and people in the US generally that Pakistan has, for example, peasants, unions, working-class politics, LGBTQ organizations, feminist groups—that, in short, the overriding ethic of Pakistani democracy and resistance movements is secular.
9. Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing out of Catastrophe
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2015
   Journalist Antony Loewenstein travels across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea, the United States, Britain, Greece, and Australia to witness the reality of disaster capitalism.
10. Dropping the bomb: How to ban nukes and save the planet
    New Internationalist June 2008
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2008
    A look at nuclear weapons and their transportation in Britain.
11. Embassy Row Online
    Resource Type: Website
    Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
12. Imperialism, the Cold War and the Creation of Pakistan
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The true intent of the partition was to detach Pakistan from India, create a militarily strategic foothold aimed at the Soviet Union and maintain control over the oil fields of the Middle East.
13. Indo-Pak Nuclear Confrontation: First Use Policy and the Race Towards Armageddon
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    There are several indications that India's ruling party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its ideological mentor the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) are obsessed with the perverse urge to wipe out Pakistan with nuclear weapons by unleashing a first or a second strike.
14. Invisible Force: Women Workers in Pakistan
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2007
    Millions of women workers in Pakistan remain unaccounted for in official figures. Even those who are in the formal workforce face problems like lower wages for the same work as men and sexual harrasment.
15. Islam, Politics and the State
    The Pakistan Experience
    Resource Type: Book
    Mohammad Asghar Khan, prominent in the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy, has assembled leading Pakistani scholars at home and abroad to assess critically the consequences of Zia's Islamicisation measures, and the relationship between Islam and politics. The history of right-wing Islamic movements and the current Islamicisation drive are examined.
16. A Left Voice in Pakistan
    Against The Current vol. 131
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    Following the October 18 attack on the massive procession into Karachi welcoming Benazir Bhutto back from an eight-year exile, Farooq Tariq, General Secretary of the Labour Party Pakistan, expressed his solidarity with the families of the more than 135 killed and 540 injured.
17. Military Inc
    Inside Pakistan's Military Economy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Ayesha Siddiqa probes into the Pakistani military's long and troubling relationship with corporate giants, and its disastrous effects on the development of a healthy democracy and civil society.
18. 'Modi is God's gift to Pakistan security establishment'
    Pakistani novelist Mohammed Hanif talks about shrinking freedoms, liberal voices and human rights in Balochistan.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Mohammed Hanif is a Pakistani journalist and writer. In an interview with Al Jazeera he talks about the shrinking freedoms in mainstream and social media in Pakistan, the role of liberal voices and the state of human rights in Balochistan.
19. Most US drone strikes in Pakistan attack houses
    Drone strikes in Pakistan
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Domestic buildings have been hit by drone strikes more than any other type of target in the CIA’s 10-year campaign in the tribal regions of northern Pakistan, new research reveals.
20. The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    An in-depth look at the nature of terrorism that discusses questioning terrorism, assessing it, the difference between state terrorism and group terrorism, morality and history, and war and politics.
21. Nonviolence
    Twenty-five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    
22. The Opposites Game
    All the Strangeness of Our American World in One Article
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The surpassing strangeness of the American way of war in distant lands.
23. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 5, 2016
    International Women's Day
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2016
    In this issue of Other Voices, we mark International Women's Day. An article written by Alexandra Kollontai in 1920 talks about the early history of this event, which grew out of a proposal put forward by Clara Zetkin at the 1910 International Conference of Working Women. A key focus at that time was winning the vote for women, with the slogan "The vote for women will unite our strength in the struggle for socialism". The link between women's rights and socialism became even clearer a few years later, in 1917, when a Women's Day march in St. Petersburg turned into a revolutionary uprising which led to the overthrow of the Czar and the Russian Revolution.
24. Pakistan: Bloody Origins of the Z.A. Bhutto Regime
    Part One: Hidden History of the 1968-69 Workers Upsurge
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013   Published: 2014
    Pakistan’s 1965 war with India over Kashmir -- a reactionary war in which the working class had no side -- was a key turning point in Bhutto’s career. The Pakistani military's poor showing provoked a bitter backlash against the regime among much of the population. Following the signing of a January 1966 armistice agreement in Tashkent, student demonstrations erupted in cities throughout the country. Despite being a principal architect of the war, Bhutto emerged as a national hero, denouncing the Tashkent accords (which he had helped negotiate) and accusing the regime of having given away at the peace table what the generals claimed they had won on the battlefield. In November 1967, Bhutto launched his Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) based on a combination of virulent anti-Indian chauvinism, "socialist" demagogy and paeans to Islam.
25. Pakistan: Bloody Origins of the Z.A. Bhutto Regime
    Part Two: The Bangladesh War
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013   Published: 2014
    The Pakistani military expected to put a quick end to the nationalist aspirations of the Bengalis. Just before midnight on 25 March 1971, Pakistani troops led by General Tikka Khan launched "Operation Searchlight," an orgy of killing directed against the civilian population of Dhaka and other cities and towns. Working-class and Hindu neighbourhoods in Dhaka were attacked with tanks, mortars and machine guns. Using prepared lists, soldiers went door-to-door gunning down Awami League activists. U.S.-supplied tanks led a military assault on student residences at the University of Dhaka. The students and teachers who were killed were dumped into a mass grave in the football ground.
26. Pakistan on the Brink? The Real Threat from Within
    Against The Current vol. 144
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The American antiwar movement must understand that what is unfolding in Pakistan bears no resemblance to the “failed-state” proclamations of establishment hacks the world over. The danger is not at all that the country will fall to the Pakistani Taliban, drowned in a tidal wave of instability said to be cascading eastwards from Afghanistan. While sham elections in Afghanistan have hopefully helped clarify the venal, corrupt character of NATO’s efforts there, at times an unhealthy haziness still afflicts the Left’s thinking on Pakistan.
27. Pakistan: Teachers and Farmers Protests Brutally Crushed in Sindh
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    On December 25, 2017, primary, secondary and high school teachers in Karachi held a defiant protest against the Sindh government due to its refusal to provide them with permanent jobs despite having agreed to do so in 2014. The provincial government is refusing to honor its agreement even after forcing teachers to pass a rigorous examination conducted by the National Testing Service and the University of Sindh.
28. Pakistan Women's Voices
    Against The Current vol. 149
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    An interview with Bushra Khaliq. Bushra Khaliq is general secretary of the Women Workers Help Line (www.wwhl.org.pk) and a member of Labour Party Pakistan.
29. Pakistani Journalists Left in Limbo Amid Vicious Media War
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Pakistani journalists working for BOL Network, a Pakistani media outlet co-owned by journalists, protest against the license cancellation of this organization. Protesters complain against violations of their rights.
30. Pakistan's blasphemy laws – The Supreme Court, Asia Bibi and the laws' historical background
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A description of a blasphemy case in Pakistan. Also includes a history of blasphemy laws going back to British India.
31. Pakistan's Dark Journey
    Against The Current vol. 151
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The recent verdict of a lower court sentencing a Christian woman to death in a “blasphemy” case, and the subsequent murder of the Punjab Governor who supported the imprisoned woman, has posed the very vital question of whether Pakistani society has become intolerant, violent and extremist to the point of incorrigible.
32. Pakistan's Women's March: Shaking patriarchy 'to its core'
    Young activists and their older counterparts explain why they are uniting to fight for women's rights in Pakistan.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    Thousands of women have marched across Pakistan's main urban centres to mark International Women's Day. 2020 is the third successive year that the Aurat March, women's march, has been held in the country.
33. Postmodern Imperialism
    Geopolitics and the Great Games
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    An analysis of the development of imperialism over the past century.
34. Press for Conversion #47
    March 2002
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2002
    This issue begins with a series of articles examining the historical context of the conflict between India and Pakistan.
35. Review: Defying Fundamentalism
    A review of Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Concerned with the rising Jihadist fundamentalism on one hand, and increasing discrimination against Muslims following 9/11 on the other, and having in mind the question repeated by many commentators — “Why don’t Muslims speak out?” — Bennoune documents the voices of Muslims in various ways victimized by Islamic fundamentalists.
36. Saving Face
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2011
    Every year in Pakistan, there are at least 100 people attacked with acid -- the majority women. Many more go unreported. This documentary Saving Face is the story of two survivors of such attacks — their battle for justice and their journey of healing. Saving Face follows their personal stories and that of the nation of Pakistan as it attempts to tackle this vexing social problem.
    
37. So Much Aid, So Little Development
    Stories from Pakistan
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    An explanation of why so much international aid gets "wasted", with a focus on Pakistan.
38. The Socialist Register 1966
    Volume 3: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1966
    
39. The Socialist Register 1971
    Volume 8: A survey of movements and ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1971
    
40. Statement on Another Attack by the Far Right on Christians and Democracy in Pakistan
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    More than 72 people including children were killed, and more than 200 injured, in a suicide bombing in Lahore’s Gulshan-e-Bagh.
41. Storming Heaven
    1968 Revisted
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The eruptions of 1968 challenged the power structures north and south, east and west. Countries in each continent were infected with the desire for change. Hope reigned supreme.
    
42. The Struggle in Balochistan
    Against The Current vol. 161
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The complicated situation that is modern Pakistan.
43. Three Cups of Tea
    One Man's Mission To Promote Peace ... One School At A Time
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    
44. Update on Pakistan: After the "Emergency"
    Against The Current vol. 132
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    General Pervez Musharraf has “taken off the uniform” and lifted the emergency as of December 15th. But Labour Party Pakistan rejects the Musharraf’s claim that the emergency is lifted. It is “lifted” with the Constitution amended, and with all the repressive measures protected by a decree.
45. US drone strikes kill 28 unknown people for every intended target
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    US drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan have killed as many as 1,147 unknown people in failed attempts to kill 41 named individuals, a report by human rights charity Reprieve has found.
46. The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism
    The Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume 1
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979
    Chomsky and Herman demonstrate, with devasting logic and overwhelming documentation, that the purpose of U.S. global policy is to make the world safe for exploitation by U.S. corporate interests and that this has required and continues to require the installation and support of brutal military/police dictatorships throught the Third World. It also requires an apologetic ideology which portrays all this as being in the highest interests of democracy and human rights.
47. What's left of Pakistan's left?
    For those in Pakistan who want to explore a non neo-liberal, non-right wing option, the Left is there in some form.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Menon recounts her discovery of the emerging political Left in Pakistan and reflects on its future. Awami Workers Party featured.
48. Wikileaks and the Truth of the Af-Pak War
    Against The Current vol. 148
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    In the aftermath of the much-discussed leak of the Afghan war documents, few aspects of the Af-Pak imbroglio have been as scrutinized as the supposed duplicity of the Pakistani security establishment. The New York Times editorial board, for example, promptly declared that of all of the revelations, the reports detailing the “cynical collusion between Pakistan’s military intelligence service and the Taliban” were the “most alarming.” (This, too, from a paper that had been privy to the leaked material for some time before the database went public).
49. World Minorities
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    An account "of the plight today and the problems of some of the world's oppressed minorities".
    

Experts on Pakistan in the Sources Directory

1. Asian Development Bank
2. Economic Cooperation Organization
3. International Crisis Group
4. Partners in Population and Development
5. South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
6. United Nations
7. Wikileaks