L’ancien Premier ministre pakistanais a qualifié son procès de « plaisanterie » dans un contexte de répression contre son parti politique à l’approche des élections. Source : The Guardian, Hannah Ellis-PetersenTraduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises L’ancien Premier ministre pakistanais Imran Khan a été condamné à dix ans de prison pour avoir divulgué des […]
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) The U.S. Government and its news-media claim that they are a democracy and “lead the free world” (to use their now-anachronistic phrase, whose meaning ended when the Soviet Union did — it’s now purely a propaganda-phrase to promote regime-change by America’s Government anywhere in the world). However, Ryan Grim’s great […]
A leaked cable just confirms what the world has had enough of. US muscle pushed for toppling Imran Khan. Just as it has from Ukraine to Africa to Brazil, and anywhere else Uncle Sam wants to get his way.
The internet was flooded with alarming images, showcasing an unprecedented backlash against the military establishment. Supporters of Imran from the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, known as PTI supporters, engaged in destructive activities such as storming the General Headquarters and causing havoc at the Lahore Corps Commander’s residence. They also defaced military monuments and properties across […]
Dans une interview accordée à The Intercept, le premier ministre pakistanais évincé, qui vient d’être libéré, accuse l’armée du pays d’avoir aggravé la crise politique. Source : The Intercept, Ryan GrimTraduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises IMRAN KHAN EST DEVENU premier ministre du Pakistan en suivant une voie tout à fait inhabituelle. Comme il […]
Imran Khan poses the greatest threat to Pakistan’s military monopoly on political power. The arrest of former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and leader of the Pakistan Movement for Justice (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, or PTI) caused thousands of Pakistanis to take to the streets and protest. However, Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered on May 11 his release, […]
On November 3, a spine-chilling assassination attempt was mounted on Pakistan’s most charismatic and popular political leader, Imran Khan, while he was addressing a political rally in Wazirabad, a small town near the capital of Pakistan’s Punjab province, Lahore. As corroborated by eye witness accounts, there were two shooters. One of them was an amateur […]
Imran Khan had been the extremely popular progressive populist secular (non-sectarian) democratically elected Prime Minister (PM) of Pakistan during 18 August 2018 to 10 April 2022, when he then became overthrown by a U.S. coup and replaced by Shebaz Sharif, the younger brother of Pakistan’s Nawaz Sharif, who was Pakistan’s 5th-wealthiest billionaire and who had […]
To the superficial observer, it may be a blessing the despots and dictators, human rights abusers, like Argentina’s Mauricio Macri, Colombia’s Iván Duque; Ecuador’s Lenin Moreno; Chile’s Sebastián Piñera; to name just a few, are gone, have disappeared from the Latin American political arena, in what was made believe to be democratic elections. Good, you […]
