Lal Khan

The renowned US author and progressive thinker Gore Vidal, analysing the US political setup, once wrote, “There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party…and it has two right wings.” Vidal was referring to the Republicans and the Democrats, whom he characterised as representatives of the ruling class, who have obvious cursory […]

From Gaza to Kobane, the devastation being caused by Zionist and Islamist reactionaries shows the crisis of capitalism plunging the whole region into an abyss of bloodshed, mayhem and barbarism. The Islamic State’s hordes are closing in on the besieged town of Kobane on the Turkish-Syrian border. Thousands of terrified Kurds have fled to Turkey […]

In an astonishing move, a Christian member of the National Assembly, Asiya Nasir, supported by more than a dozen lawmakers, including Islamicist mullahs, moved a new amendment to the 1973 Constitution seeking a ban on non-Muslims drinking alcohol. However, the bill did not get very far. “I am saddened and dejected today,” said Asiya Nasir. […]

The final round of the presidential elections in Afghanistan, and the ‘deal’ between the two ‘front runners’ on September 21, was so feeble, and the outcome so putrid, that even bourgeois analysts and reporters had to designate them as repulsive. Even the most vociferous and arrogant stalwarts of the ruling classes and imperialism at The […]

With the victory of the “No” campaign in Scotland, the crisis in the UK and Scotland is far from over and the disillusionment with the UK political establishment and the state is not going to wither away. Both Cameron and the Tories are going to face a very turbulent period ahead, particularly with deepening political […]

In this nauseating and disingenuous confrontation of the elites, real issues are shoved into oblivion. Balochistan appears in the corporate media in accordance with the whims and needs of the deep state and ruling classes. Ever since the creation of Pakistan, Balochistan has been in a state of turmoil, revolts and insurgencies. Militant struggles and […]

The present political setup representing the different sections of finance capital is busy with the din of “change” but it has consciously failed to point a finger at the socioeconomic system that is ravaging this tragic land. The two clowns in the shape of Khan and Qadri and the not so funny clowns of the […]

After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the capitalist counter-revolution in China, an immense political vacuum opened up in ideology and politics on a world scale. The tendency that gained the most prominence was the resurgence of political Islam and religious fundamentalism. Sectarian conflicts of the warring religious sects from Islam to Judaism and […]

With Sharif and his PML-N cohorts in utter despair, Khan and Qadri in a blind alley of demagogy and the military reluctant to take direct power, political theatrics are in full swing and Zardari now jumps into the arena as a wily magician. No wonder the people of Pakistan are in contemptuous frustration because of […]

As thousands reach Islamabad with high expectations of change, the masses at large are bewildered, indifferent and sceptical about all the streaks of the political elite. Speculations of deals brokered by the military chief, General Raheel Sharif, are rife. Pakistan is once again immersed in instability and turbulence. The unfortunate inhabitants of Pakistan have never […]