Lal Khan

The financial and economic crash of 2008 and the ongoing organic crisis of world capitalism continues to destroy and debilitate humanity on the economic and social front. But since 2011, it has also given rise to a series of upheavals and movements around the globe. The rejection of capitalism has never been so far and […]

Despite propaganda by corporate media of a glittering and happy world outlook, the gulf between the rich and poor is widening like never before. From the IMF to the World Bank, all financial institutions are busy erecting a farce of show-efforts to reduce this gap. If anything, as a result of such efforts, the NGO […]

The incumbent Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz regime has announced the biggest ever privatisation of state assets in the history of Pakistan. Sixty-eight State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) are to be sacrificed at the altar of aggressive neo-liberal capitalism. In direct contrast to the perception being peddled by the corporate media, most of these SOEs, like the Oil […]

There is hardly a day when the news coming out of Pakistan does not have some form of a calamity or trauma with harrowing footage splashing across television screens. Terrorist attacks or suicide bombings, earthquakes, floods, other natural disasters, unbearable price hikes, collective suicides of impoverished families, selling of children and human organs and so […]

October 9t marked one year since the serene valley of Swat was suddenly overcome with pain and anguish at the bestial attack on Malala Yousafzai and other schoolgirls in the van taking them home as it rounded at an army checkpoint in the midst of a fundamentalist insurgency. Miraculously, Malala survived this fatal attack but […]

As if there was not already excruciating misery for the working classes in Pakistan, the massive hike in electricity tariffs and prices of the petroleum products will wreak havoc on an already impoverished populace of this tragic country. This tyrannous attack lays bare the callous and brutal character of the ruling classes and the current […]

Ever since the UN Declaration was signed at the San Francisco Conference in June 1945, the broad avenues that run along New York’s East River are blocked for a week as motorcades and delegations criss-cross the city and converge on the UN building at Turtle Bay for the General Assembly. There is much diplomatic pomp […]

One of the cruellest features of the present period of lull and social stagnation in the Indian subcontinent is how economic and social conditions are seen from the standpoint of the bosses with disregard for the pain and misery inflicted by this economic development on the heaving millions. The media and the dominant intelligentsia are […]

The release of Shahrukh Jatoi and others in the Shahzeb Khan murder case by way of Qisas, or payment of ‘blood money’ to the parents of the deceased victim, has yet again triggered a debate on the status of laws enacted in the name of religion. A rich killer from the feudal aristocracy, despite blood […]

As the dark clouds of another war and imperialist aggression loom large on the horizon of the Middle East, the hawks of imperialism and strategists of capital are baying for President Bashar al-Assad’s blood. In its last issue, The Economist’s editorial is titled “Hit him hard”, with the pictures of coffin-draped corpses piercing through Assad’s […]