Chaos in Pakistan: Imran Khan Takes on America and its Comprador Elites

Junaid S AhmadWith staunch US support, Pakistan’s unelected “imported government” is trying to arrest former Prime Minister Imran Khan, the most popular politician in the country, to prevent him from running in elections. But protesters are protecting him. “There is great chaos under heaven; [hence] the situation is excellent.” -Mao Zadong If 2022 was the…

The Proximate Aspect: Imran Khan

Al Mayadeen English An exclusive interview with former Pakistani PM Imran Khan discussing his planned political ousting, attempted assassination, disputed Kashmir, and much more.

Abandoning Afghanistan is Dangerous for its Neighbors

F.M. Shakil Despite the Taliban’s many shortcomings, only a unified, multilateral approach to negotiating with and recognizing the Islamic Emirate will safeguard the borders of neighboring states. Following the withdrawal of US and NATO forces from Afghanistan in August last year, the Taliban-led schismatic government in Kabul appears to have reached a diplomatic impasse. It seems like its…

Amid Devastating Floods, Pakistan and China Partner to Build Climate Resilience

Ruqiya Anwar As part of the Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese and Pakistani scientists teamed up to build a new weather detecting lidar station in Peshawar that will help predict and mitigate future climate disasters. As part of an ambitious initiative to build climate resilience in the aftermath of disastrous floods, Pakistan has, with Chinese…

Why is India Arming Armenia Against Azerbaijan?

Yeghia Tashjian Trade routes and national security interests in the South Caucasus are central to New Delhi’s decision to arm Armenia After the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war and the shift in the South Caucasus balance of power toward Turkey, India has expressed concern that its vision to connect Europe and Russia to its Indian ports through the…

Imran Khan Rewrites Pakistan’s Political History

MK Bhadrakumar Pakistan’s ousted president Imran Khan trounces his opponents by a wide margin in their own stronghold of Punjab. Against the odds and powerful rivals pitted against him, former PM Khan’s win in Punjab elections is a victory for democracy and Pakistan’s sovereignty It is an unsavoury proposition always, be it in India or Pakistan,…

Imran Khan Gives Pakistani Officials Six Days to Announce New Elections Following Mass Rally

The CradleOusted Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan during a march to Islamabad, Pakistan on 25 May 2022. (Photo credit: REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro) Khan promised more marches and rallies across the country if the US-backed government does not announce a date for new elections On 26 May, ousted Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan gave authorities a six-day…

Why is the US Trying to Provoke a Conflict on the Afghanistan—Tajikistan Border?

Valery Kulikov Ever since the withdrawal of the last US troops from Afghanistan and the fall of the country to the Taliban (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation), Washington has been unable to come to terms with the loss of its influence in the region. It is therefore doing all it can to…

Terror from Balochistan: A Menacing Tool to Disrupt Sino-Pakistani Economics

Pepe Escobar Balochistan can only benefit from Chinese infrastructure investment in the immensely impoverished Pakistani province. But an uptick in attacks on Chinese workers by militant separatists suggests that external agendas may be in play. A Baloch suicide bombing targeting Chinese workers in Karachi comes a mere month after the US-backed ousting of PM Imran Khan….

Afghanistan Braces for New War

M. K. BHADRAKUMAR There is media buzz lately about an anti-Taliban insurgency struggling to be born in Afghanistan. A former Afghan army general, Sami Sadat, is returning home as the West’s favourite to don the mantle of leadership of a pan-Afghan “resistance” movement against repressive Taliban rule.  There is a lot of infighting amongst marginalised…

Pakistan’s US-Backed Coup Regime Stirs Up Pashtun Hornet’s Nest

M. K. BHADRAKUMARAfghans protest against Pakistani air strikes, Khost, April 16, 2022 The Pakistani air strikes on Saturday on the eastern Afghanistan provinces of Kunar and Khost killing dozens of people may seem at first glance a crude knee-jerk reaction to the ambush in North Waziristan the previous day in which seven Pakistani soldiers were…

Massive Pro-Khan Rallies Sweep Pakistan On Eve of New PM Vote

The Cradle As the Pakistani parliament gears up to elect a new prime minister to replace the freshly ousted Imran Khan, massive protests swept the nation with thousands rallying in favor of Khan and against what many have called a foreign conspiracy spearheaded by the US. Never have such crowds come out so spontaneously and…

Pakistan Enters Another Phase of Turbulence

Vladimir Terehov News agencies report about the attempt to dismiss the Lower House of the Parliament of Pakistan, undertaken on April 3 by Prime Minister Imran Khan – an evidence of reaching a qualitatively new level of (another) aggravation of the situation in the country, which has been escalating over the past few weeks. This…

US Ousts Imran Khan But His Revolutionary Narrative Endures

MK Bhadrakumar The US may control a handful of Pakistani political and military officials, but PM Imran Khan owns the street. Washington has reactivated old cronies in Islamabad to unseat PM Imran Khan, but the latter has sown seeds of immense dissatisfaction with the old guard and their US backers within the Pakistani public. And Khan’s…

Imran Khan Takes On America

Ejaz Akram Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan rallies his countrymen against a US-backed plot to unseat his democratically elected government. The government in Pakistan has alleged that Sunday’s no-confidence motion to oust Prime Minister Imran Khan from power was masterminded in Washington After a humiliating defeat in Afghanistan and loss of credibility over Ukraine, the era…

ISIS-K Strikes Pakistan: ISIS Join with Nazis in Ukraine

Mourners offer funeral prayers for bomb blast victims a day after a suicide attack at a Shiite mosque in Peshawar on March 5, 2022, as the death toll rose to 62 overnight as police said they would try to identify the bomber from two severed feet found at the scene. (Photo by Abdul MAJEED /…

Pentagon Adds Africa to Global Battleground with China and Russia

Rick Rozoff General Stephen Townsend, commander of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), and General Kenneth McKenzie, commander of U.S. Central Command, are scheduled to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee on April 22. The testimony, both open and closed, will address the proposed 2022 National Defense Authorization Act which is reported to include a total…

Destabilizing Pakistan: Bookending Washington’s China Policy

Tony Cartalucci Much is being said of US activities aimed at China. Recent protests in Hong Kong together with a US-led propaganda campaign aimed at Beijing’s attempts to quell a growing terrorist threat in Xinjiang are aimed at pressuring the nation to fall back into line within Washington’s enduring unipolar international order. The latter of…