What's Left of Pakistan

Reading the Dictator's Diary: Ayub Khan's Downfall in His Own Words

On the perceived invincibility of oppression and the 1968-69 student uprisings in Pakistan

Feb 18 • Asmer Asrar Safi

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December 2025

Dispatch #1

Archival tidbits worth sharing this week:

Dec 17, 2025 • Asmer Asrar Safi

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November 2025

Maulana Popalzai, Haqeeqat-i-Haal and the Socialist Fatwa

On religion as a site of struggle

Nov 27, 2025 • Asmer Asrar Safi

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October 2025

Maulvi Ji, Ab Kaho!

Habib Jalib on American Imperialism, Sovereignty, and the Religious Right

Oct 29, 2025 • Asmer Asrar Safi

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September 2025

Chalo Chalo, Toba Tek Singh Chalo!

On the forgotten radicalism of the Toba Tek Singh Kisaan Conference (1970)

Sep 22, 2025 • Asmer Asrar Safi

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Sajjad Zaheer and 'A Night in London'

On Indian students in 1930s England and the fragility of our political commitments today

Sep 2, 2025 • Asmer Asrar Safi

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August 2025

Introduction: 'What's Left of Pakistan?'

‘What’s Left of Pakistan’ is an attempt at thinking through and with the Pakistani progressive archive.

Aug 30, 2025 • Asmer Asrar Safi

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