Pakistan

Supreme Court Orders Police to File Case Against PM Sharif After Imran Khan Assassination Attempt

By Rishikesh Kumar – Samizdat – 07.11.2022 Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Monday ordered the police chief of Punjab to lodge a First Information Report (FIR) in the Imran Khan assassination case within 24 hours. The police said that the provincial government was preventing Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) from registering the case despite several attempts. Issuing […]

Pakistan’s domestic turbulence raises question about the reliability of storing its nuclear arsenal

The rapidly evolving situation around Pakistan does not allow attention to be diverted to developments in other equally important areas of the Indo-Pacific region. It should be recalled that it is a country with a very mixed (mostly in ethnic terms) population of around 220 million people that possesses an arsenal of nuclear weapons, the […]

Pakistan’s political turbulence continues unabated

The main features of domestic political turbulence in Pakistan, outlined earlier in the NEO and overlaid by the impact of the catastrophic flooding, are confirmed by recent developments in the country. One should not forget Pakistan’s de facto nuclear status, which has stimulated increasing external attention to what is going on within its borders. In particular, […]

U.S. Regime Threatens to “Hang” Pakistan’s Deposed Leader if He Holds Anti-Coup March

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 […]

U.S. Regime Threatens to ‘Hang’ Pakistan’s Popular Leader If He Holds Anti-Coup March

Eric Zuesse 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 […]

Les inondations dévastatrices au Pakistan prouvent que la crise climatique est aussi une crise de la dette

Le Pakistan est confronté à une double crise : des inondations provoquées par le changement climatique qui ont entraîné le déplacement de dizaines de millions de personnes et une dette écrasante imposée par les institutions financières occidentales. La dette du Pakistan doit immédiatement être annulée. Source : Jacobin Mag, Heidi ChowTraduit par les lecteurs du […]

Pakistan Politics With Imran Khan

Politics in Pakistan is again creating turmoil. Media reports said: Former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s close aide and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader, Shahbaz Gill’s room at Parliament Lodges was raided by police contingents in the presence of Gill who was brought to the location amid strict security measures. The police team led by the senior superintendent of police (SSP) found[Read More...]