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On the night between 9th and 10th of April, Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan was ousted by a vote of no confidence in the parliament with 174 members voting against him, making him the first PM in Pakistan’s history to be shown the door in this manner. The motion was supported by all (...)
Suddenly, Imran Khan has become “Anti American”. Former prime minister of Pakistan and head of his Pakistan Justice Party (PTI), Mr Khan is holding mass rallies after losing majority at the national parliament. In his speeches before he was voted out as prime minister but particularly after the (...)
Pakistan’s prime minister found to have broken the law by attempting to stop vote going ahead
Pakistan’s prime minister, Imran Khan, has lost a no-confidence vote in parliament after a dramatic week in which he violated the constitution in an attempt to stop the move going ahead.
Khan, the (...)
Haqooq-e-Khalq Party considers the decision by Prime Minister Imran Khan to dissolve the National Assembly to be a blatantly unconstitutional and anti-democratic step, as this was done in violation of Rule 37(8) of the National Assembly Rules of Procedure, which clearly states: “The Assembly (...)
MANY non-white peoples are outraged at the Western mainstream’s response to Russia’s military assault on Ukraine. Western media, intellectuals and politicians are united in their sanctioning of Russia under the pretext that ‘civilised’ Europeans must be defended. They remain silent, however, about (...)
LAHORE : The protest of Progressive Students Collective (PSC) has entered 11th day. PSC from different colleges and universities of the country has set up a protest camp against a ban on student unions at Charing Cross and demanded lifting of the ban on students’ unions.
The PSC has issued a (...)
’Student unions used to be nurseries for future politicians’: Qamar-uz-Zaman Bhatti
On February 9, 1984, former military dictator General Zia-ul-Haq imposed a ban on student unions in Pakistan.
As many as 38 years have passed but the student unions couldn’t be restored in true letter and spirit. (...)
As the IMF executive board met on January 28 to decide on Pakistan`s request for the revival of $6bn Extended Fund Facility (EFF), the government remained optimistic having fulfilled all the five conditions imposed by the global lender to revive its 39-month program suspended since April last (...)
Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee (PKRC) welcomes the decision of Lahore High court declaring RUDA project illegal.
“It is a historic verdict which will go a long way in curbing catastrophic developmental projects in future” general secretary of Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee, Farooq Tariq said (...)
FOR all that changes in Pakistan’s political life, much continues to conform to a choreographed script. Take, for example, the emergence of ‘popular’ demands for a presidential system of government whenever an establishment-sponsored regime is reaching the end of its shelf life. With some 18 (...)
“MOST days Zafra and her family wake up at 5 a.m. and engage in manual labour until 6 p.m., working through the heat and smoke. She and her husband earn PKR 600 for every thousand bricks they produce, a target they aim to meet together daily. They can’t even afford to eat daal ... on a daily (...)
WHO rules Pakistan? Some may say the answer is simple: the establishment. This may be accurate to the extent that our structure of power is conceptualised within our physical borders. But how do we understand the establishment’s position in the context of global political and economic powers (...)
CHRISTMAS is hardly a big occasion in Pakistan. More than two million Pakistani Christians celebrate it guardedly, with few from the Muslim majority joining them. Government officials issue cut-and-paste statements and put up a Christmas tree or two in public places, and then return to the (...)
A report on the Student Solidarity March 2021 held in many cities across Pakistan on Friday demanding lifting of the ban on campus politics and student unions in universities and colleges in Pakistan.
Thousands of students from universities and colleges across Pakistan took to the streets for (...)
THE results of a recent survey conducted in Gilgit-Baltistan on the extent of child labour there has put the number of child workers at 50,000. According to the Gilgit Baltistan Child Labour Survey 2018-2019, most of these children work in hazardous conditions and are doubly vulnerable to (...)
If you want to see how the Pakhtuns cope with militarisation, visit any crossing point on the Pak-Afghan border and observe not only their miseries, but also how this wretchedness is represented or controlled by the system.
While reports of people’s helplessness at border points such as Ghulam (...)
The Nobel Prize for Economics for the year 2021 awarded to David Card for his contributions to scholarship on minimum wages has vindicated trade unions, labour and human rights advocates and pro-labour economists the world over. Card’s work in 1994 refuted the long-held hypothesis that increases (...)
Prime Minister Imran Khan says he wants a welfare state like that of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) in the seventh century. Many Pakistanis want to believe him and in a Riyasat-i-Madina. At a preparatory meeting ahead of the Prophet’s birthday, Khan announced the creation of the Rehmatul-lil-Alameen (...)
GWADAR: Thousands of people from different areas of Gwadar and Turbat on Thursday staged a protest demonstration against non-availability of basic amenities and shortage of drinking water, health, education facilities and increasing unemployment in Gwadar and other areas of Makran division. (...)
The university administration needs to rethink the idea of an academic space
Although Pakistan has a rich history of student politics, politically conscious students are no longer welcome in any public space. The legacy associated with many rebellious student leaders like Rashid Ahmed Khan and (...)
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