In a historical moment when the very foundations of a social order begin to crumble, Antonio Gramsci foresees an ‘organic crisis’. The crisis consists precisely, he believes, in the fact that the “old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” “Now is the time of monsters” has taken the place of the last phrase in vogue.
It is now a widespread contention that the old world is dying everywhere; as a consequence of new possibilities of communication, and means of politics, owing majorly to advancement in digital sphere. The social-media-savvy youth in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa are the particular points of reference in drawing such a picture of the changing political landscape. The rise of PTI is regarded as the emergence of new historical bloc in the mainland Pakistan, and the political manifestation of its desire to replace the dying old order is more and more an established argument.
Perpetual war provided space for new enterprises in the sphere of politics and economy. This gave birth to a new elite who owed their newly acquired status to smuggling, scrap, transportation and other such activities, mainly associated with the war economy and the patronage of the perpetrators of war My effort here is to map the political landscape among the Pashtuns. In Pashtun peripheries, the last few years have been eventful and phenomenal, to say the least.
The accumulative resentment against the last two decades .