CHITRAL INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH

پانی دھرتی کا دودھ - ہم سب اقوام متحدہ کے ایک ذیلی تنظیم کا دنیا میں پانی کے بحران کے حوالے سے رپورٹ قابل غور اور تشویشناک ہے۔ وہ علاقے اور ممالک جہاں موسمیاتی تبدیلی سے جو بھی حالات ہو چکے ہیں ....

Calling women of the past ‘feminists’ is reading the present into the past. This sort of position is heavily influenced by the British mindset that deliberately and actively worked to depict and present the women of the subcontinent as lacking in terms of strength, volitions and respect and regard for their own liberty.

The Mughal feminist It is a colonial myth that women’s empowerment struggles were initiated, theorised and maintained by white women in the West

The legal system was modernised but invested in the stability of the labouring household based on gender and class hierarchies and in defending the male accused.

Colonial collusion Why do South Asian states cling to anti-democratic laws?

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2020/10/8/rewrite-the-english-department-lessons-in-radical-decolonisation

Rewrite the English department: Lessons in radical decolonisation Can we reimagine the world of literatures in English in a way that puts historically marginalised voices at the centre?

The draconian was a tool for the to suppress the freedom struggle in the subcontinent against . Yet, this relic still haunts us today. The trend of labelling political opponents and critics as traitors, and accusing them of sedition, must end, and the government must investigate what happened in this case and revisit this repressive law.

The ‘sedition’ label The draconian sedition law was a tool for the British to suppress the freedom struggle in the subcontinent against imperialism.

The did (do)what suited their interests, not their subjects. It is thus strange that models are invoked to this day to resolve basic issues of governance.

Autonomous & sovereign Pakistan can only remain viable if its units enjoy autonomy.

Some are the descendants of those who fawned to British colonial authorities — part of the decreasingly important feudal class. Other are just elderly — looking back through rose-tinted glasses that airbrush out the negative aspects of the colonial experience.

Colonial legacy Post-colonial uncertainties are not restricted to the once-colonised.

THE trustees of the (...) have become the largest receivers of stolen property, and the great majority of their loot is not even on public display.

The fate of Tipu’s Tiger The iconic tiger should come to Pakistan, which, being the Muslim successor state after colonial India, should have a right to it.

AN archaic law, enacted by the colonial masters to oppress the ‘natives’, should not — in theory — be difficult to jettison from the statute books. Sometimes, however, the masters of old are replaced by autocrats or, at the very least, quasi-autocrats seeking to quell a ‘troublesome’, rights-demanding populace.

Archaic law AN archaic law, enacted by the colonial masters to oppress the ‘natives’, should not — in theory — be...

Lambardar also helped maintain a rudimentary chowkidari (security) system, kept a watch over strangers coming into the village, and reported to the nearest executive authority, especially if the visitor happened to be a political activist and showed disrespect to the colonial sarkar.

Trifling with governance By reviving the patwari’s position, the Punjab government has reaffirmed its fidelity to the colonial system.

Taliban and US folly The Americans tried and failed miserably to remake Afghanistan in their own image.