Category: Pakistan

American-Style Colonialism and Imperialism, with Pakistan the Latest Victim

The world is littered with wreckage of many countries that fell prey to colonialism’s and imperialism’s ruthless march. All superpowers have hegemonic goals. One can only hope that such goals are achieved with minimum damage to vulnerable targeted countries and with minimum blowback that may make such policies and actions a spectacular failure. The U.S. way of colonizing other nations […]

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Has Imran Khan’s ouster opened a Pandora’s box in Pakistan?

In January, as his relations with the powerful army chief Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa frayed and the opposition began to coalesce against him, then-Prime Minister Imran Khan issued a warning to those plotting his ouster: Indeed, since Khan was removed from office earlier this month after losing a vote of no confidence, his supporters have taken to the streets in […]

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Afghanistan working on plans to expand ties through railway network

Afghanistan Railway Authority (ARA), said Friday they are working to expand economic ties with neighboring countries through railway projects. The director general of the Afghan Railways, Bakht-u-Rehman Sharafat, says they are working on plans to develop the railway system in Afghanistan and to use this form of transport for exports. He said that Russia and Kazakhstan have also shown interest […]

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Ilhan Omar’s Visit To Pakistan And Indian Reaction – OpEd

Ilhan Omar is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Minnesota’s 5th congressional district since 2019. She represents the Democratic Farmer Labor Party. She made her first ever visit to Pakistan on 20-24 April 2022 and held meetings with Pakistani politician/leadership and visited the cultural city of Lahore and also visited the Azad Jammu and Kashmir. Kashmir the […]

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The Imperial Logics of the Pakistani Left

Pakistan has been rocked by demonstrations throughout the country since the ouster of former Prime Minister Imran Khan from power. This development has been a surprise not only to Khan’s detractors, but to Khan’s supporters as well. The size of these rallies has been astonishing. What they have also demonstrated is that the Pakistanis who have been outraged by recent […]

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Saudi Arabia condemns terrorist bombing at Pakistan’s Karachi University

Saudi Arabia strongly condemned the terrorist bombing that took place near a Chinese institute at Pakistan’s Karachi university killing a number of people. The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs renewed in a statement the Kingdom’s solidarity and stand with Pakistan against violence, extremism and terrorism. It also stressed Saudi Arabia’s rejection of these criminal acts that are incompatible with all […]

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The Rise, Fall, and Rise of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf

Imran Khan’s unceremonious fall from the prime minister’s office has only reinvigorated his devoted supporters. On Thursday, the Pakistan Teheek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief, the recently ousted prime minister, Imran Khan addressed one of the biggest rallies of his career at Lahore’s Minar-e-Pakistan. At the rally Khan reiterated his claim of a U.S.-led “global conspiracy” having led to his ouster on April […]

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Female Bomber in Pakistan Kills 3 Chinese Nationals, Local Driver

Police in Pakistan said Tuesday three Chinese nationals and their local driver were killed in a suicide bombing of a van in the southern city of Karachi. Senior police officers told reporters the victims had been traveling to the city’s Chinese-built Confucius Institute when the blast hit their van at the entrance.

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Militants in Afghanistan strike Pakistan army post, kill 3

Militants in Afghanistan fired heavy weapons across the border into a Pakistani military outpost overnight, killing three personnel, the army said Saturday, in the latest violence to rattle the volatile region. A firefight ensued with the militants firing toward the army post in Pakistan’s rugged North Waziristan region, and several were killed, the statement said. There was no immediate way […]

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Pakistan Must Get Ready To Face The IMF – OpEd

Most of the politicians in Pakistan, being part of the ruling junta or sitting in the opposition, talk ‘bad’ about International Monetary Fund (IMF), mainly to attain political mileage. While every political party in opposition blames IMF of economic malice of Pakistan, but no sooner did it comes in power approaches the lender of last resort and often agrees on […]

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