Pakistan

Imran Khan condamné à 10 ans de prison pour avoir divulgué des secrets d’État

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 […]

Banished from Pakistan: Islamabad Moves on Afghan Refugees

Across the globe, refugees, always treated as the pox of public policy, continue to feature in news reports describing anguish, despair and persistent persecution.  If they are not facing barbed wire barriers in Europe, they are being conveyed, where possible, to third countries to be processed in lengthy fashion.  Policy makers fiddle and cook the […]

How the International Monetary Fund Continues to Shrink the Poorer Nations

From 9 to 15 October, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank held their annual joint meeting in Marrakech (Morocco). The last time that these two Bretton Woods institutions met on African soil was in 1973, when the IMF-World Bank meeting was held in Nairobi (Kenya). Kenya’s then President Jomo Kenyatta (1897–1978) urged those […]

The IMF’s Neocolonial Grip on Pakistan Is the Same as Its Grip on the Third World

Pakistan has made international headlines repeatedly over the last year for almost all the wrong reasons. While the country has been associated with extremism and terrorism for over two decades, more recently Pakistan has become known for natural disasters and political upheavals. Among the issues that deserve serious scrutiny – but gets little to no […]

War of Economic Corridors: the India-Mideast-Europe Ploy

The India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) is a massive public diplomacy op launched at the recent G20 summit in New Delhi, complete with a memorandum of understanding signed on 9 September. Players include the US, India, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and the EU, with a special role for the latter’s top three powers Germany, France, and […]

Destitution d’Imran Khan : un câble secret démontre que les États-Unis ont exercé des pressions

Si le vote de défiance contre le Premier ministre pakistanais Imran Khan aboutit, « alors, tout sera pardonné », a déclaré un diplomate américain. Source : The Intercept, Ryan Grim, Murtaza HussainTraduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises Lors d’une réunion qui s’est tenue le 7 mars 2022, le Département d’Etat des Etats-Unis a encouragé […]

9/11: The Onslaught of an Endless War on Humanity

Monday, September 11, 2023 marked the 22nd Anniversary of the NYC 9/11, a day of global mourning, the beginning, or activation, of a crime of biblical proportions like never before in history remembered. Activation stands for onslaught of a colossal War on Humanity. What the small supremacist elite calls War on Terror is nothing less […]

Ryan Grim’s Great Reporting Might Be Breaking the Back of the U.S. Dictatorship.

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 […]

What Pakistan can learn from India’s past economic crisis

The Current State of Affairs in Pakistan Pakistan’s economy has experienced a severe downturn in the past year due to a combination of factors. Bad governance, IMF loans, the political instability, the trade imbalance, the devastating floods of 2022 in Pakistan, and the Russia-Ukraine crisis are some of the pivotal factors that have worsened inflation […]