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,…
"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…
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…
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…
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.…
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, 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…
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,…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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 -…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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