Lal Khan

For the last 35 years, the anniversary of Chairman Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s brutal murder by the vicious Zia regime is commemorated with reverence and a big gathering of PPP workers and leaders at his tomb in Ghari Khuda Buksh near Larkana on April 4. However, the essence and the message that comes from its commemoration […]

During question hour in the National Assembly, in a written reply to a question submitted by MNA Lal Chand, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar told the house: “From July 2013 to February 2014, the government waived Rs 320.8 billion to the business class in tax exemptions.” This was actioned in a country whose major social indicators […]

March 23 was a significant date in the struggle for independence against British imperialist rule. However, there are some episodes and events that are deliberately forsaken, distorted and ridiculed by the ruling elite’s historians in the subcontinent. One such significant episode was the struggle of the Hindustan Revolutionary Socialist Association (HSRA) and its most renowned […]

There is a hue and cry in the media and the present PML-N leadership are shouting in an orgy of wild triumphalism at the miracle brought about by the finance minister Ishaq Dar. It is true that the rupee has come down from about Rs 107 to a dollar to less than a hundred, but […]

In the 67 years of Pakistan’s existence there has hardly been a period where the vast majority ever experienced genuine prosperity and mass contentment. The ruling elite, nurtured by the British imperialists, ensured that the struggle for national independence was restricted to the system grafted by imperialism onto the body politic of this South Asian […]

The regular provocative and quixotic statements of the MQM’s leadership have become a sort of norm in the political decay Pakistani society has been passing through in the last few decades. Altaf Hussain, in another bizarre outburst from his bubble in London, has once again traversed the ridiculous to arrest the dwindling popularity of the […]

With more than 25 killed and hundreds wounded on Wednesday, February 19, 2014, the violence in Kiev and other cities of Ukraine seems to be unravelling into a bloody civil war. While this mayhem has been raging in Ukraine, the western imperialist media had a field day with a well rehearsed script just like during […]

It is rather surprising that the Taliban did not include Shahbaz Sharif or Rana Sanaullah, along with Imran Khan, in the list that would represent them in the ‘peace talks’ with the government. Although Imran Khan appreciated the gesture he could not go ahead to bat for the Taliban knowing well the futility of these […]

At least one advantage of the Sindh Festival being held in Mohenjo Daro was to introduce this 5,000-year-old civilisation to broader layers. However, civilisation and culture are not limited to music, art and poetry. They encompass the mutual relations, habits, feelings, attitudes, social behaviour and many other aspects of life. The most profound expression of […]

The year 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the First World War — a war that resulted in the mass slaughter of at least 13 million people. Bourgeois academics often explain wars and conflicts as an inevitable result of the innate aggressiveness of human beings. Reality, however, is different. In an uneven world, contradictions can […]