Amin Mughal taught Pakistan’s Left and media to disagree without falling apart

Amin Mughal, who died in London on August 12, 2026, spent a lifetime translating between Pakistan’s revolutionaries, dissidents and journalists so their fractured Left could at least understand itself. In 1981, the state arrested three editors at once: Mazhar Ali Khan, I.A. Rehman and Amin Mughal, all picked up in the same sweep. The weekly they ran, Viewpoint, did not miss an issue. Zafar Iqbal Mirza, ZIM to everyone who knew him, held the paper together from the inside while the men who bui...

By [email protected] (Ikram Ul Haq)