Lal Khan

Pakistan TV channels have gone in over-drive once again over a complete non-issue. Anchors and newscasters have gone hoarse with the military-civilian ‘power balance’ debate, increasing political haranguing amongst politicians of the capitalist political spectrum. Masses have another opportunity to experience the real workings of a political system and state institutions that are created and […]

In the last weeks, India has witnessed student protests in many universities across India- from Srinagar in Kashmir to Hyderabad to Madras-in support of Kanhaiya Kumar, President Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union. This, in turn, has created a political furore, which led to some real issues, faced by the oppressed masses in India, be telecasted […]

Recent history is strewn with how Pakistani establishment, its bureaucrats, its politicians, both of the right and the left, variety hide behind the controversial veil of the United Unions (UN) to maintain the status quo. When issues of conflict and diplomacy unravel out of their control they conveniently jump on the UN mantra, and its […]

Europe witnessed over one million refugees fleeing in to its borders in 2015, 90 percent of whom were from Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan. It is the largest movement of displaced people since the Second World War resulting in seven European Union (EU) states imposing border controls, Hungary building a wall on its southern border, Denmark […]

Such is the intensity of the crisis on a world scale that political instability, economic turbulence, social unrest, turmoil and wars have become convoluted. The Middle East, an epicentre of the continuum of violence and oppression for more than a century is a prime example of this phenomenon as it now enters into an even […]

The recent PIA strike was a monumental episode in the history of industrial struggles by the workers in this country when all of Pakistan International Airlines’ (PIA’s) operations including flights, cargo and ticketing offices were brought to a grinding halt for eight days in every city and town that has PIA offices, airports and facilities. […]

There is no hiding away from the fact that Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) needs a massive injection of capital to keep the company going. There are very few capitalist vultures willing to gamble their wealth on such a project. They will hardly find any buyers of this huge and consciously damaged and depreciated institution as […]

Till late Friday night, Pakistan International Airlines’ (PIA’s) flight operations remained suspended for the third consecutive day with about 350 flights having been cancelled since Tuesday. A ‘high-powered’ team of Sindh Rangers claimed to have found “clues about the presence of miscreants in the crowd”. But the claim was immediately rejected by representatives of the […]

The ongoing process of Pakistan International Airlines’ (PIA’s) privatisation and the resistance of pilots and workers has suddenly taken a sharp turn with the eruption of protests and a countrywide strike. The strike and protests are continuing despite government attacks and the vacillations of the Joint Action Committee’s (JAC) leaders from the various PIA unions […]

Barely a year has passed since some 141 children were massacred in the Army Public School (APS) in Peshawar and again the country has been inflicted with another cruel blow with the killing of at least 21 people, mostly students, at Bacha Khan University. Just as the media, the ruling elite and the state were […]