Pakistan & Kashmir

Imran Khan joins the long list of deposed prime ministers and underscores the reality that, in Pakistan, whoever the people elect, the U.S.-backed military is always in charge. By: VT By Alan Macleod  ISLAMABAD – Following weeks of high drama and controversy that have racked the nation, Imran Khan has been removed from office. The Pakistani prime minister suffered a vote of no confidence and a loss in the supreme court, ending his rule after less than four years. Coalition partners abandoned him, leaving his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party in the minority. The cricket-star-turned-political-leader had been warning for some weeks that a foreign power – assumed to be the United States – was seeking to overthrow him because of his independent foreign policy...

BY EVE OTTENBERG Islamabad, Pakistan. Photograph Source: Ali Mujtaba – CC BY-SA 4.0 Someone sure wants regime change in Kazakhstan and Pakistan. Someone sure aims to realign Central Asia from its current Russia-China tilt to a more western-friendly posture. And that someone may be willing to use violence and lawfare to get such results. Who on earth could it be? Answer that question correctly and you go to the head of the class – the class that never gets mentioned by the western propaganda machine, aka corporate media. This malodorous silence, whiffling through our press and TV, means no focus, ever, on western machinations to engineer regime change. That skullduggery may be alluded to as the wild charges of some unreliable non-western politico, but that’s it. They’ll t...

Peter Oborne The prime minister has been vulnerable to attack - both domestically and externally - since coming to power in 2018. Prime Minister Imran Khan’s decision to dissolve the Pakistani parliament to head off a vote of no-confidence has been greeted by global shock and bemusement.That bemusement is misplaced. I’ve covered Pakistani politics over two decades. As a long-term student (and admirer) of the country, I can state with confidence that the real shock is not that Pakistan has been struck by political crisis; it’s that it has taken so long. Khan's honesty makes him fundamentally unsuited to the debased methods that are second nature to many successful Pakistani politicians Few democratically elected leaders of Pakistan last long. Indeed, not one of Khan’s prede...

By: VT The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, Nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favour to the learned;But time and chance happen to them all Ecclesiastes 9:11 A large segment of Pakistanis is addicted to sensational journalism, breaking news and conspiracy theories. Educated classes are no exception. Amongst Pakistan Think Tanks and Discussion Forums, dialogues on Pakistan’s potential and future outlook remain subdued. While our contemporaries who followed our development model took leaps and bounds for top international rankings, Pakistan is stuck in the politics of the past. This politics has bred greed, corruption, professional incompetence and unethical practises. The framework of political economy of Pakistan conspic...