The Pyromaniac and the Peacemaker: Netanyahu vs. the Region
There are moments in history when diplomacy dies with a whimper, not a bang. But this time, it may die with both. Israel, drunk on decades of unpunished aggression, has…
Junaid S Ahmad
The Coronation of a Collaborator: General Munir’s American Umrah
In the imperial theater of Washington, where regimes are puppeteered and loyalties auctioned, a curious ceremony unfolded. General Asim Munir, Pakistan’s top-ranking uniformed ruler, arrived not as a diplomat of…
Genocide and the Generals: On the Uses and Uselessness of Muslim Militaries
It is the year 2025, and Gaza lies in ruins. Again. Except this time, the devastation has reached levels that no euphemism—no “conflict,” no “operation,” no “security response”—can whitewash. Since…
Pride, Propaganda, and the Nuclear Hangover in the Subcontinent
More than a month has passed since the deadly terrorist attack in Pahalgam, deep in the restive terrain of Indian-occupied Kashmir. Yet, the region has not exhaled. That attack was…
Gold for Genocide: Trump’s Gulf Tour and the Cowardice of Kings
Donald Trump didn’t glide into the Gulf as a diplomat brokering peace. He arrived like a swaggering auctioneer at a royal fire sale—offering nothing but flattery and appetite, and leaving…
The Desert Applause: Trump, Tyrants, and the Theatre of Power
There’s a peculiar kind of irony that history seems to favor—where former reality TV stars turned presidents, banished by democratic verdicts and haunted by indictments, find redemption not in courts…
Indo-Pak War: Escalation and Diversion
It began, as it so often does, with a blast in Indian-occupied Kashmir. A terrorist attack—brutal, tragic, and all too familiar—left carnage in its wake. Without missing a beat, the…
War in South Asia: Demagogues, Generals, and Nuclear Madness
What was feared has happened. India has launched military strikes deep inside Pakistan, and Islamabad claims to have retaliated in kind. The spark? A terrorist attack over a week ago…
Kashmir and the Spectacle of Manufactured Crises
It was an old script, dusted off and recycled with all the subtlety of a Bollywood B-movie plot: an attack on tourists in Pahalgam, Kashmir—tragic, condemnable, and as predictable as…
Imran Khan’s Pakistan: ‘Democracy Now,’ Democracy Deferred
To an outsider, Pakistan’s ruling class appears schizophrenic, perpetually swinging between Washington and Beijing, using each as leverage against the other. While Pakistan’s geostrategic importance allows this game for now,…
Pakistan: Signposts of a Revolution in Progress
"From the scenes we saw, it looked like the war between Palestine and Israel. A bloody game has been played and brutality is too small a word for what these…
Pakistan: A Revolution That’s Not Being Televised
November 24th was designated as the global day of protest for the release of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, who has been imprisoned by the Pakistani military and political…
Antagonistic and Irreconcilable: Contradictions and the Future of Imran Khan’s Movement for Justice
As Americans coronate a new American president, the Zionist genocide in Gaza continues unabated. And while the world witnesses an expansion of Israel’s mass murder campaign, Muslims continue to look…
Nasrallah in Pakistan
Two weeks after the killing of Hezbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah, political movements throughout the world, and especially in the Global South, continue to mourn what they believe is a monumental loss.…
Pakistan: Khan, the Movement for Justice, and the Left
It is compellingly said that the Zionist genocide in Gaza is the moral issue of our lifetimes. That is, regardless of your strong stands on other social issues of our day -…
Tariq Ali: The Rare Breed of Principled Pakistani Progressives
Tariq Ali, despite being solidly left wing all of his life, and despite the fact that former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s politics is not his cup of tea, the preeminent…
Unworthy Victims: Pakistani Women Confronting State Terror
Here, we have a devastating indictment of state terror in Pakistan by our indefatigable comrade, Khadijah Shah - the prominent Pakistani public figure and political activist. After being violently harassed, abused,…
Nuclear Pakistan’s Comprador Cowardice
Pakistan's prime minister, Shahbaz Sharif, declared the 28th of May as a public holiday. Indeed, the House of Sharif, the family in control of one of the two dynastic political parties…
Khan vs. the Generals, Checkmate: Khan
Pakistan's elections just days ago both lived up to expectations, and did not. What was predicted was the electoral tampering, rigging, and outright fraud that was a central feature of the…
Biden’s Generals in Pakistan
As the world, and especially Muslims, correctly has been focused on the Zionist genocide in Gaza, we seem to have forgotten President Biden's criminality in another part of the world.…
Is Washington now Khan’s Buddy?
We all know that 95 percent of elite Pakistani politics is mentally challenged fairytales and gossip replete with murmurings that can be cooked up for a good story to sell…
Chaos in Pakistan: Imran Khan Takes on America and its Comprador Elites
“There is great chaos under heaven; [hence] the situation is excellent.” -Mao Zadong With staunch US support, Pakistan’s unelected “imported government” is trying to arrest former Prime Minister Imran…
Regime Change in Islamabad
Pakistan’s opposition is trying to overthrow Prime Minister Imran Khan with a no-confidence motion. Khan says the US sent him a threatening letter and he has proof of foreign funding…
Petition Against Hudson Institute
The UN Secretary General His Excellency Mr. Antonio Guterres in his September 2020 document titled United Nations Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech said: “Fighting hate, discrimination, racism…
Disturbing Trend on the Rise of Harassment Against Asian-Americans
Trump supporter revealed it was Miles Yu who planned the anti-Asian policy. Recently, a screenshot of Trump supporters discussing Miles Yu's anti-Asian policy in the Telegram group has been widely…
Pakistan’s Choice for an Islamicate Counter-Hegemony
The rapidly shifting geopolitical realities, every new emerging international security situation, and (especially) current circumstances in South Asia behoove Pakistan to treat the Kashmir issue as its top priority -…
Peter Navarro’s Dangerous Agenda
Amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Trump administration has made numerous reckless decisions to combat the virus, demonstrating a deadly incompetence. Indeed, what even minimal intelligent preparedness in the richest…
Corona and the Geopolitics of Justice
It is obvious that the coronavirus pandemic will be front-page news for a good part of 2020. And for good reason, since its human toll and social dislocation has been…
Just Another ‘Deal’? The Question of Aafia Siddiqui and Restorative Justice
Yesterday, March 2nd, was the birthday of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui. People may be forgiven (should they be?) for forgetting about Aafia since these seventeen birthdays of hers have gone by…
Betrayal in KL
94-year old Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, himself a highly respected Muslim leader despite failings of his own during a long political career, really took affection to our Pakistani Prime Minister Imran…
Newsweek Headline: Turkey’s Erdogan Wants To Crush The Kurds And Recreate The Ottoman World
It’s true, with Western propagandistic headlines like this, who needs NATO, who really needs them as even friends. Perhaps the barrage of such vitriol has caused two vital allies of…
Terror against Gaza: Solidarity and Activism in an Age of Imperial Decline
Co-Written by Junaid S. Ahmad and Zehra Yilmaz One of the most spectacular series to come out recently was based on a novel by the greatest spy thriller of our…
Final Gasps Of an Empire in Terminal Decline
There's a scene from the popular American series Homeland where one of the star characters, a US Special Ops/highly trained CIA hitman named Peter Quinn, is asked by his higher ups how…
Kashmir And ‘Pivoting’ Toward A Nuclear Holocaust
This past summer witnessed yet another people's uprising in one of the longest running, and most ruthless, military occupations in modern times: the Indian occupation of Kashmir. The callous indifference…
Turkey And The End Of An Era Of Imperial Control
The attempted coup and its aftermath in Turkey on July 15th have provoked heated debate on its meaning and ramifications. The will of the Turkish people to unflinchingly defend their…
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