Join our Whatsapp channel MANY amongst the Pakistani intelligentsia claim that colonialism is dead.... As one of the main pillars of the SIFC, corporate farming envisions the construction of new perennial irrigation canals that will then facilitate the establishment of oligopolies in the agricultural sector. The colonial lineages are clear for anyone who wishes to see them.... The foundational imperative is to put millions of acres of ‘wa--steland’ to productive use through mega wa--ter infras

All that has happened compared with colonial era and that of high imperialism is that this economic oppression – always the material basis of this profoundly unjust division of the world - has been perfected to the point where formal conquest is kept in the back pocket, writes Alan Freeman, Co-Direc