Fractured democracy on January 28, 2017So that’s it. Democracy has been attributed by the masters of our land as the ultimate destiny for the deprived, the impoverished and the oppressed toiling subjects of this capitalist rule. This means accepting the right of the rich, the privileged, the mighty, the propertied classes and the upstarts that rise through the social layers […]
Selling-off family silver on January 21, 2017Behind the façade nauseating judicial circus and somersaults of the Apex Court, the ranting and rowing politicians of the various factions of Pakistan’s ruling elite have common interests of pursuing their lust of wealth accumulation. In their contemptuous attitude towardsthe toiling classes, there’s not a whiff of condemnationby these conflictingpoliticos against the Sharifs on issues […]
Palestines obscured cause on January 14, 2017Seventy-two countries are due to attend the conference on Sunday, today, in Paris presumably to lay an international framework for a two-state solution between the Palestinians and Israel. However the Israeli and Palestinian will not attend the gathering. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu described the conference as, “a relic of the past, it’s a last gasp […]
Silver linings in the dark shadows on January 7, 2017Some of the brightest moments for South Asia in 2016 included the September 2nd historic general strike of the twenty million workers brought India to a standstill. The February strike of the PIA workers in Pakistan that grounded the airline was a manifestation of the power of the working class when it moves into action. […]
Forcing prohibition on January 2, 2017Alcohol related deaths have become a routine affair in this culturally starved and socially suffocating country. According to police in Toba Tek Singh at least 42 people died and over 70 were taken to a hospital in Faisalabad, including 10 in critical condition, after consuming toxic liquor on Christmas eve. Some of those undergoing treatment […]
Alliances: For what? on December 24, 2016A day before Bilawal announced the arrival of his father from his self-imposed exile, Asif Ali Zardari a master tactician in wheeling and dealing, and shrewd operator in Pakistan’s moneyed politics the party also announced a desire for a grand alliance of the opposition parties. The press statement said, “The party would form a grand […]
Fighting the menace of religious sectarianism on December 17, 2016Whether it was a teenage Hindu girl in Madhya Pradesh in 2015, or the Hazaras being periodically slaughtered in Balochistan, Muslims and Christians being lynched and discriminated in India, Hindus being beleaguered in Sindh or the latest pogrom in the relentless orgy of violence and intimidation against the Ahmadiyya sect in Durmial village of the […]
Will Aleppos fall be consequential in Syrias civil war? on December 10, 2016After more than four years, the Syrian government forces have finally recaptured Aleppo from the Islamist rebel forces — armed, sponsored and supported by the western imperialists and the reactionary monarchies of the Middle East. Last Tuesday, BBC reported that the Syrian government forces had taken control of Aleppo’s historic old city after rebel fighters […]
Is misery humanitys fate? on December 3, 2016In country after country, human society is suffering from the exploitation and crushing domination of global capitalism. So acute is disparity that mere top 1% of adults own 51% of the world’s wealth and bottom 50% own only 1%. Most incumbent regimes, ranging from religious fundamentalists to liberal secularists, subscribe to this oppressive economic doctrine, […]
Kashmir bleeds in virulent crossfire on November 26, 2016The intensified shelling by the two nuclear-armed neighbours across the Line of Control (LoC) on Wednesday dangerously escalated the situation in Kashmir. An Indian mortar shell hit a passenger bus in the Pakistani administrated Kashmir near Muzaffarabad, killing 10 civilians while leaving 21 seriously injured. In addition, three army personnel lost their lives. A local […]