Lal Khan

The masses not only in Pakistan but across the continents have seen through the hollow promises of the façade of capitalist democracy. In the post-war period the former colonies were gripped with revolutionary upheavals in one country after another, and the western imperialists led by the US resorted to brazen military dictatorships to crush these […]

From Afghanistan to Turkey, Egypt and Pakistan, to Bangladesh, almost the entire so-called Muslim world is being ravaged by a ferocious wave of fundamentalist terror during the last few days of the Ramazan, and before Eid-ul-Fitr, a festival to celebrate culmination of fasting. For the last few decades, ordinary souls instead of celebration have been […]

It has become almost as a ritual for the experts of the Pakistani ruling classes to fudge figures and exaggerate statistics like reduction in poverty. Every new regime based on corrupt and redundant capitalist system proclaims to have reduced poverty. The latest is a report by the ministry of planning and development. The report unveiled […]

The heinous act of mass murder of 49 people and injury to over 50 inside a gay nightclub, Pulse, in Orlando Florida on June 12th has shaken the US politics to the core. And it has multiplied the hysteria and hatred of religious, ethnic and sectarian prejudices by the corporate media far beyond the shores […]

Ever since Narendra Modi came into power he has been aggressively pursuing neo-economic policies camouflaged with radical rhetoric of Hindutva, which culminated in brutal murders of some innocent citizens by BJP vigilantes merely on suspicion of beef consumption. The naked attacks on students in Hyderabad, at the JNU in Delhi, on writers, broadcasters and censorship […]

Despite proclamations by western imperialist governments and their experts of an economic revival, world capitalism has not recovered from the shocks of the financial crisis of 2008. The economic recovery is nowhere to be seen and social discontent is visibly erupting relentlessly. The economic equilibrium that was disrupted by the financial crash inevitably has dislocated […]

The Pakistani political and state elite is raising the old rag of sham sovereignty yet again. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif criticised the drone strike that the US carried out in Balochistan earlier this week, and said that it was “a violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty… an issue that has been raised with the United States in […]

After a bitter, bruising and openly racist campaign peddled by the Conservatives, the Labour Party’s Sadiq Khan on May 5, 2016 won London’s mayoral race, and made history as the first British Muslim of Pakistani origin elected to lead a major Western capital city of 8.6 million. Khan’s victory has also sent Pakistani media, political […]

The rise and fall of empires had been a constant feature throughout the history of class society. Wars, revolutions, economic catastrophes and decay of the systems have been the root causes of the fall of these regimes. The tremors of the economic and financial crash of 2008 are still being felt across the globe. Even […]

The announcement of the Turkish prime minister, Ahmet Davutoglu’s resignation after 20 months in office amid deteriorating relations between the prime minister and the president, Recep Tayyip Erdoðan, exposes the deep crisis of the Turkish regime and the state. While there have never been open squabbles between the two leaders, with Davutoglu largely appearing as […]