Lal Khan

The rowdy and wild Trump seems to have been tamed sooner than most had imagined. The US military-industrial complex and the Wall Street have apparently prevailed with the Tomahawk cruise missile strike. Only days before, the US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley had stated that Assad’s rule in Syria was a reality that had […]

The protests last Sunday in Russia which aroused such euphoria in the western media have died down, but this may be a temporary pause in the outburst of a people simmering with revulsion against the conditions of life in a country riddled with worsening socio economic crisis. This new upsurge of protest demonstrations was the […]

On March 23rd 1931 Bhagat Singh, the revolutionary icon of the liberation struggle was assassinated through the gallows in the Lahore jail by the British imperialists. In the official and the unofficial historiographies the real facts of the people’s struggles and the folklore heroes who fought are expediently suppressed. Bhagat Singh’s legacy has been the […]

In Wednesday’s Dutch elections pollsters were proved wrong yet again after Brexit and Donald Trump’s flabbergasting triumph. However, this time around they faltered by overestimating Wilder’s grandiloquence. His PVV was a far second with 13.1 percent of the vote. Although the ‘scare’ of alleged neo-fascist threat has for the time being averted, a third term […]

Strange are the times we live in. On a world scale there is an unforeseen instability, turmoil and discontentment. This is more so in the world’s largest economy and the mightiest military power. Ever since Donald Trump became the president of the US there been hype in xenophobia, misogyny, anti Muslim chauvinism, travel bans and […]

A young student of the Delhi University, Gurmehar Kaur, criticised the BJP’s students wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) over its complicity in campus violence. A video posted by her a few years ago read: “Pakistan did not kill my dad, war killed him” had exacerbated this xenophobic frenzy. Getting sick of the smear campaign […]

The potential growth of Pakistan’s economy highlighted by the World Bank and the IMF has been seized by the PML (N) regime as international recognition and proof of its economic success. A recent article in the Washington Post said that “Looking beyond the headlines Pakistan today boasts the best stock market in Asia in 2016and […]

With almost a dozen terrorist attacks from Lahore to Sehwan and Peshawar to Balochistan this week, the terrorists have yet again struck Pakistan with a vengeance. Hundreds perished while many more have been maimed. The resurgence of this orgy of dreadful slaughter and mayhem by the forces of black reaction has shaken both the state […]

Last week, the UN lifted sanctions against Gulbadin Hikmatyar, the fundamentalist head of the Hizb-i-Islami terrorist outfit in Afghanistan. Initially, the most ruthless warlord in the US imperialist had backed counter-revolutionary insurgency against the Afghan revolution in 1978. This UNSC decision follows a peace deal signed by the Afghanistan’s incumbent puppet regime and Hikmatyar’s largely […]

The militaristic mindset of the generals and the bourgeois political elites across the world has hardly moved ever since the times of ancient Rome, nearly two thousand years ago. Vegetius, a functionary in the Roman imperial bureaucracy, had composed a treatise in Latin on military adventures. He wrote, “Those who want peace should prepare for […]