By Naveed Qazi | Editor, Globe Upfront Hugo Chavez has died of cancer at 58 on March 5, 2013. His body will be embalmed and put on a display in a glass casket for eternity at a military museum after a big state funeral, like the one which has not been seen since the death of Argentina’s Eva Peron, before the country braces itself for a tumultuous election campaign. This Latin American Socialist icon had been widely regarded as one of its most popular leader, amongst the new wave of leftist parties that are working for the emancipation of Latin American countries. Chavez was seen as a virile force of nationalisation by the Venezuelans and he drew inspiration from the Cuban Revolution, the leftist governments of Juan Alvarado and Omar Torrijos in Panama. He used his country’s rich natural reserves such as oil for which he was seen as a liberator of the poor. He invested millions of dollars in oil in countries that were ideologically similar. In 1992, Chavez launched Revolutionary...

By Naveed Qazi | Editor, Globe Upfront I ndia and Pakistan were formed through a tryst of destiny.  The so called revolutionaries rose to find the soul of their nations, which were long suppressed according to their free thinking. Soldiers, adventurers, business men and administrators were the proudest possessions to exploit this part of the continent, which was getting free from the Empire of the Colonial British - they left, but kept their senates, their language and their institutions in their respective vassals. British ruled from Khyber Pass to Cape Camorin – India.  Through the quarter of the century of inspired agitations and protests, the nationalist movement grew to an unusual prominence, which made the British leave India.  The roots of this uprising was an age old antagonism between India’s Hindus and Muslims - sustained by a tradition of  antipathetic religious differences, economic inequality, subtly exacerbated by Britain’s 'divide an...