Lal Khan

  President Donald Trump has ruled out withdrawal from Afghanistan. He initially resisted his advisers and was adamant on taking out US troops. Trump’s Chief Political Strategist Steve Bannon was fostering a scheme devised by Erik Prince, the owner of the notorious security contractors firm Blackwater, to replace US troops in Afghanistan with 5,000 highly […]

The Trump presidency in its first two hundred days has rattled US imperialist strategists. He has lurched from one blunder to another. On the domestic front Trump’s statement of blaming both sides while commenting on the supremacists’ murderous attack in the Charlottesville, has unleashed a firestorm in the US. On the foreign front Trump’s bluster […]

The ruling regimes of India and Pakistan are whipping up nationalist fervour with massive celebrations on 14th and 15th August to mark the seventieth anniversary of ‘their Independence’. There’s an on-going campaign by the corporate media to instil a contrived pride and gratification for this independence. The euphoria imposed from the top will wane in […]

Although PML-N leaders and supporters were hoping against hope, the writing was on the wall. The state’s burgeoning crisis, crumbling economy and elite’s internecine conflicts were bound to take their toll. The Supreme Court asserted that, “This historic decision that would be remembered for centuries”, however it couldn’t even stir the vast majority of the […]

As the political and judicial conflicts between the different sections of the moneyed classes and the state are unravel dangerously out of control, the corporate media has tried to distract attention and engage the working masses in these frivolous. However, the stirrings of the workers struggles often erupt albeit sporadically tearing apart the iron wall […]

With the election of Ram Nath Kovind as India’s President and Venkaiah Naidu as the vice president, frenetic religiosity has grabbed the ‘largest democracy’ in the world. Since 1947 it is for the first time that the RSS-BJP’s Hindutva chauvinists hold all the three top political posts. The BJP also has more than a two-thirds […]

Daesh faced defeat in Mosul last week. Iraqi forces and the Iranian-backed Shia militias recaptured the city. The Daesh fighters used civilians as human shields, but the exasperated Iraqi and other military commanders inflicted massive ‘collateral damage’ i.e. civilian causalities. It was a protracted and arduous military campaign that began in October last year. But […]

The mass movement which erupted in Kashmir in July 2016 openly defied the subjugation of the Indian state and its military — the fifth largest in the world. The upsurge also refuted the corporate media’s portrayal of the movement as religiously motivated. This struggle is about the will and determination of Kashmir’s oppressed people to […]

Scars of the reactionary military coup forty years ago, on 5th July 1977, are still blighting today’s Pakistan. General Ziaul Haq’s most vicious regime in the country’s history impelled society in the throes of repression, terror, poverty, disease, misery, religious bigotry and sectarian carnage. The country’s elected Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was deposed, incarcerated […]

  The Saudi King Salman’s midnight decree installing his son Mohammed bin Salman as the heir apparent exposes the internal crisis of the monarchy. The deteriorating economic situation in the Kingdom due to the collapse of oil prices is behind these drastic changes and is the cause of fissures within the Al Saud family. The […]