Lal Khan

Last Wednesday the newly ‘selected’ seven members of the standing committee of China’s Communist Party’s politbureau were revealed to a focused world. However, no apparent heir to the general secretary Xi Jinping was in sight. On Tuesday, the final day of the week long Communist Party of China’s 19th congress held every five years, Xi […]

On October 17, a day after the four-nation talks on Afghanistan ended in Oman without any breakthrough twin terrorist attacks rocked Gardez and Ghazni, killing 71 people and injuring more than 200. Afghan army’s ranks are already beset by corruption and desertion problems. And the deadly terrorist attacks in Afghanistan and its spinoff affects in […]

In the last few decades, philanthropy has been intensively glorified in Pakistan. It reflects the despair and agonising want in the society. Pinning the hopes of the deprived on the generosity of the obscenely wealthy philanthropists exposes the failure of politics and the state. These mainly upstart moneyed individuals have gained enormous social and political […]

Today marks the 50th anniversary of Guevara’s death — an event that Bolivia’s left wing president, Evo Morales, will commemorate with a several state events including a ‘Relaunching of the Anti-Imperialist Struggle’. On October 9, 1967 Ernesto ‘Ch’ Guevara — the Argentina-born revolutionary was brutally murdered in the Bolivian village of La Higuera 40 miles […]

Today marks the 50th anniversary of Guevara’s death — an event that Bolivia’s left wing president, Evo Morales, will commemorate with a several state events including a ‘Relaunching of the Anti-Imperialist Struggle’. On October 9, 1967 Ernesto ‘Ch’ Guevara — the Argentina-born revolutionary was brutally murdered in the Bolivian village of La Higuera 40 miles […]

Seething political chaos and the judiciary’s hyperactivity have concealed Pakistan’s rampant economic deterioration. The politicians seem to have abandoned the electorate and have descended into courtroom dramas. The media’s gurus are oblivious towards the real issues tormenting the oppressed classes that are hit by the economic decline that is further destabilising the state and the […]

The political crisis in Pakistan has been exasperated after the dismissal of Nawaz Sharif. Few in the establishment and their political allies had expected a rather insipid Nawaz Sharif, a creation of the state, to march along the GT road ‘on the way home’ with a mutinous cavalcade defying the deep state and the judiciary. […]

On August 14, the 70th anniversary of Pakistan’s ‘independence’, two teenage lovers, 15-year-old Bakht Taj and 17-year-old Ghani Rehman, eloped their homes to get married without consent of their families. But they were soon tracked down by their relatives. Terrified of fierce retribution from the reactionary tribal community in which they were besieged, Rehman’s father, […]

The involvement of highly educated youth from the middle class backgrounds in the recent terrorist attacks,particularly in Karachi,is not an extraordinary phenomenon. It has become more of a norm. There is a long list of high profile terrorists from petit bourgeois backgrounds.Sarosh Siddiqui was a postgraduate physics student who escaped last Monday’s attack and Ahsan […]

For almost two decades, the corporate media has been launching a vicious propaganda against the Bolivarian movement that began with the victory of Hugo Chavez’s election as President in the 1998. In the last few months, crisis in Latin America’s largest oil producing country have intensified with violence raging on its streets. Last week, the […]