• Trump’s Twenty-First-Century Fascism
  • سلمان حیدر کون ہیں؟

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  • Salman Haider, an editor at Tanqeed, disappeared late on Friday, January 6.

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  • The US intellectual class has failed to understand the racism at the core of Trump’s political project. White supremacy is a social and political system, not simply a matter of individual attitudes.

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  • #ResistTheRight | Reject the normalization of Trump. Organize, organize, organize.

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  • قوانین کہن، آئین فرسودہ سے شکوہ ہے

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Tanqeed is Going on Sabbatical

We want to return better and stronger. Tanqeed’s editorial team has decided to suspend publication for 18 months while we rethink and reconfigure TQ. The website will remain live.
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FATA Reforms: A Break from Tradition?

Despite the reforms, it appears that old forms of colonial frontier governance will continue, at least, until the region’s proposed merger 5 years from now. By then, it is likely that FATA’s disaffected classes will have lost faith in the process.
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Cheegha: The Call from Waziristan | Book Review

Daur’s book is raw: one feels his pain at the state of Waziristan through its pages. It is particularly strong since Daur writes from within Waziristan: we, not they.
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A Poem Off The Page

Right now the friends of my friends are being disappeared / Soon it will be my friends' turn / And then mine.
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Tanqeed Editor, Poet, Activist is Missing | #RecoverSalmanHaider

Salman Haider, an editor at Tanqeed, disappeared late on Friday, January 6.
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Trump is White Supremacy in Overdrive

Overt white supremacy is more mainstream than it’s been in decades. Jared Taylor, a white supremacist leader who wants to keep the US majority-white and argued that liberated Black people threaten civilization, bluntly said Trump’s victory was about white identity.
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Open Letter to American Liberals

Are you here to rectify the consequences of you - and millions of other well-meaning liberals’ - complacency in a system of global warfare that’s persisted unchecked for the past 8 years?.
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Trump’s Twenty-First-Century Fascism

The US intellectual class has failed to understand the racism at the core of Trump’s political project. White supremacy is a social and political system, not simply a matter of individual attitudes.
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سلو بھائی سے ملیے

سلمان حیدر کون ہیں؟


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علی سید | ایک چھوٹا سا مکالمہ

بس تم میری بات مان لو اور احتیاط کرو۔ بلکہ چپ ہی رہا کرو۔


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تم بھی لاپتا ہو جاؤ گے | ہاشم بن راشد | سلو بھائی کےلیے

ایک نظم، سلمان حیدر کے نام


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صوفی کا بلاگ | شکوۂ مختصر

قوانین کہن، آئین فرسودہ سے شکوہ ہے


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بچے ۔۔۔ ہمارے معاشرے کا ایک مظلوم طبقہ

پاکستان دنیا میں بچوں کے حقوق کے حوالے سے موجود بین الاقوامی معاہدوں کا دستخطی ہے مگر جب...
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ز خم خوردہ ہوں ، شکست خوردہ نہیں

ادھر میں اونچی آوازوں سے ڈر جاتی ہوں پر تشدد فلموں سے دور رہتی ہوں اور مارا گیا...
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اسلام آباد سے سفاکانہ بیدخلی کی روداد

جیل سے رہائی کے بعد یہ منظر میرے لئے نا قابل یقین تھا کہ تمام آبادی اب بس...
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A Kashmiri View of Pakistan: solidarity without demands

A Kashmiri View of Pakistan: solidarity without demands

Beyond the Indian polemic about Pakistan’s overinflated role in Kashmir, there is a distraught relationship Kashmiris do in fact have with Pakistan. For Kashmiris, Pakistan’s support is both welcome and a cause for anxiety.

Beaten But Not Defeated | Feministaniat

Beaten But Not Defeated | Feministaniat

I continue to flinch at loud noises, avoid violent films and substitute “hit” for “beaten” because being hit is not the same as being beaten. I am not beaten. I do not accept defeat.

Not Talking About Pakistan

Questions about Pakistan are now a fact of living here, no different from damp weather or calls from salespeople. Some I deflect, and others I frame around my own terms. I drew a secret line around the borders of Pakistan and rarely stepped over it.

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Tanqeed Editor, Poet, Activist is Missing | #RecoverSalmanHaider

Salman Haider, an editor at Tanqeed, disappeared late on Friday, January 6.

Wage Theft, Hunger, and Neglect in the Kingdom of Heaven

Those in Saudi Arabia’s corridors of power seem to forget that the kingdom in...

Reckoning with Zarb-e-Azb | INTRO

A special series on the military venture that, two years later, still hasn't quite...