Event Recordings

Trapped in the Past: Elections and the Unending Crisis of Pakistan's Political Economy

Date: Thursday February 22, 2024

Ammar Ali Jan is a Pakistani historian, activist, youth leader and academic. He is a self proclaimed Marxist, founder and president of Haqooq-e-Khalq Party, also a member of Progressive International.

Jan has published and continues to publish regular articles on progressive politics in newspapers like The News International, Al Jazeera, The Friday Times, Herald (Pakistan) and few others. He is author of the book ‘Rule by Fear: Eight Theses on Authoritarianism in Pakistan’, Folio Books (November 2021).

SAI Director/Professor Syed Akbar Hyder introduced Ammar Ali Jan prior to the talk. Ammar was a former student of Professor Hyder at UT Austin.