Kashmir: betrayal through coalition on February 28, 2015For almost seven decades, armed struggle, religious fundamentalist chauvinism and nationalism have failed to deliver any respite to the oppressed masses of Indian-occupied Kashmir. ‘Democracy’ and development under a brutal occupation are a cynical farce. The Kashmir People’s Democratic Party’s (PDP’s) coalition with the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) is nothing but a blatant betrayal for […]
Fallacy of eliminating fundamentalist terror II on February 22, 2015The US’s relations with its oldest and long lasting ally in the region, Saudi Arabia, have been strained in the recent period, albeit hypocritically. The Economist commented, “A woman accused of murder was dragged through the streets of Mecca and beheaded with a sword. Though America disapproves of this sort of thing, it does not […]
Fallacy of eliminating fundamentalist terror I on February 21, 2015As a new spree of terrorist attacks unravels with increasing frequency the menace of Islamic fundamentalist terror seems to be beyond the control of the ruling elite, their state and the system. The haughty claims of national unity by the political elite against terrorism and the vows of state institutions and generals to exterminate terrorism […]
Poor vote to end suffering on February 10, 2015In the current epoch, the most deceitful form of elections and democracies is to be found in those countries that are either directly or indirectly under military rule and/or world and regional imperialist powers. We have witnessed this farce in Iraq and Afghanistan. Indian held Kashmir is no different as it is under the direct […]
Manoeuvres of Ruling Class on January 31, 2015While debates in the media and politics rage on about the issues of diplomacy, military campaigns, terrorism, fundamentalism, judiciary, constitutional complexities, etc, discussion on the crumbling economy and the aggravating suffering of the masses is being conveniently ignored. The failure and paralysis of the economic policies of the ‘experts’ of this system in decay has […]
Is Greece Europes new hope? on January 24, 2015Pakistani economists are quick to ape and emulate the European and the US bourgeois economists churning out their terminology and hypotheses without actually understanding the political, social, economic and class dynamics of these countries. When western economic strategists were shell shocked by the 2008 crash, their cheap imitators in Pakistan became erratic and short tempered […]
Fighting terrorisms on January 17, 2015In the recent visit of US Secretary of State John Kerry to Pakistan, the hypocrisy of bourgeois diplomacy, the weak and pathetic condition of the Pakistani elite and their state, and the impotence of US imperialism were awkwardly exposed. The greedy, deceitful and corrupt Pakistani rulers were trying to extract more ‘aid’ and Kerry was […]
Silver lining in Kashmir elections on January 10, 2015In the current epoch, the most deceitful form of elections and democracies is to be found in those countries that are either directly or indirectly under military rule and/or world and regional imperialist powers. We have witnessed this farce in Iraq and Afghanistan. Indian held Kashmir is no different as it is under the direct […]
Racial brutality: US imperialisms vile reality on January 3, 2015There has been a never-ending chorus on the virtues of democracy and human rights by Pakistan’s liberal, secular and the ex-left intelligentsia, especially since the fall of the Berlin Wall. US imperialism’s democratic credentials are projected as a solution to the horrors of fundamentalism. Imperialism’s naked and brutal aggression in the region is overtly and […]
Barbarity of the Peshawar massacre on December 20, 2014The massacre of 141 people, including 132 children, by the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban at the Peshawar Army Public School is probably the most heinous barbarity ever seen in Pakistan. It is an exception to the norm of a society that is the victim of a terrorist scourge for decades. The main reason cited for this […]