"Imposition of tax is computer mistake".
From the Blog pamirtimes - > "Imposition of tax is computer mistake". pamirtimes.wordpress.com — Special Reporter Gilgit, October 11: Responding to a news item published in the national press about imposition of tax on employees of the GB government, an official of the AGPR has clarified that no tax has been imposed in the … Continue reading → . Read Full Post
New Stylish Men Shalwar Kurta Designs Eid
From the Blog feedburner - > New Stylish Men Shalwar Kurta Designs Eid pakiez.blogspot.com . Read Full Post
Poessay: The Winter of Discontent
From the Blog baithak - > Poessay: The Winter of Discontent baithak.blogspot.com — credit: katsetsuna the winter of discontent leaves break out blades periscope...suddenly green waves...replace the morbid...white-grays of winter buds splash colours in timeless blur...lovers waltz and whirl...sparrows seemingly chuckle leaves descend...to embrace the blades...birds... . Read Full Post
Recycled Spinoff - Not Whither, But Wherefore ‘Pakistan’?
From the Blog gee-spott - Recycled Spinoff - Not Whither, But Wherefore ‘Pakistan’? November 5th, 2010 Since I never know what to post here, I am just going to spinoff a point raised by Umair on his blog Recycled Thought (link on the sidebar to the right). In his post “Jinnah’s many last words” , Umair makes a good point about how “collective identity emanates from the collective experience of obtaining or struggling for a common goal”, because it points to why the idea of Pakistan and Pakistani-ness is fraught with tension. Independence and the creation Pakistan was not a collective experience of struggle towards a common goal - it was a compromise in the process of negotiation, as opposed to a clear goal that the different provinces struggled towards. Perhaps the reason it is difficult to locate Jinnah’s true vision for Pakistan and how it applies to us today is because the Pakistan we have today, which is an independent ‘nation-state’, has nothing to do with the kind of Pakistan that Jinnah was negotiating for (basically a group of autonomous Muslim majority provinces reporting to a dual legislature at the center). Since independence, the ‘minority provinces’ (i.e everyone except Punjab) have been marginalized politically, economically, culturally, etc, which basically means that for a lot of people, ‘Pakistan’ represents little else than the state that is exploiting them. Given this, I wonder, is there any merit in holding on to the idea of the Pakistani nation , or considering it more legitimate than the idea of the Balochi/ Sindhi/ Pakhtun nations? Should we bother to frame conflicts and politics in a way that keeps referring to the idea the ‘nation-state’, the idea that there is a single Pakistani nation that is subject to the state? It seems to me there is a specific function that these debates perform: on the one hand they will never be able to resolve the question of ‘what IS Pakistan anyway?’ but by continuing to ASK the question, they serve to reify the nation state. This is problematic for the reasons I’ve given above, but again, because the postcolonial state in Pakistan is basically a surplus extracting machine that derives its power from concurrently enabling greater integration of the economy into the global capitalist framework on the terms of the global North, such that peasants and workers in the area continue to occupy an extremely marginal position within global capitalism. THE G SPOT
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