Hasan Nasir’s Voice: His Memory and Political (After)life in Post-Naya Pakistan

Hasan Nasir — communist, organizer, dissenter — was tortured to death in Lahore Fort in 1960 under Ayub Khan’s dictatorship. His crime? Challenging the state. His death? Disguised as suicide, buried without identity and only uncovered through the dogged pursuit of justice by fellow political worker Major Ishaq.

This talk revisits Nasir’s brutal custodial killing and the colonial-era laws still weaponized today to silence political dissent. From Balochistan’s disappearances to systemic torture, we trace the legacy of repression — and the courage it takes to resist.

About the Speaker:

Raza Naeem is a writer, researcher and translator, trained in Political Economy at the University of Leeds in UK and in Middle Eastern History from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, USA. He is the recipient of a prestigious 2013-2014 Charles Wallace Trust Fellowship in the UK for his translation and interpretive work and has also written the foreword to the reissued edition of Abdullah Hussein’s classic partition novel The Weary Generations (HarperCollins India, 2016). He is based in Lahore as the President of the Progressive Writers Association.

This session is free and open to all. Just visit the venue to attend it.

The Black Hole
Plot 5H, Street 100, G-11/3, Islamabad.
Click here for Google Maps Location