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ECP disqualifies ex-PM Imran Khan

By thehighasia
October 22, 2022
in :  Corruption, Crime, Latest, National, Pakistan, Politics, Slider
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Toshakhana case

A PTI supporter scuffles with a police officer. Dawn The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in a landmark decision on Friday disqualified ousted prime minister Imran Khan in the Toshakhana case and barred him from holding public office. The ECP in a unanimous decision found Khan guilty of “corrupt practices” and disqualified him from being a member of parliament. The …

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Imran’s dark web man delivered ultimatum: Sethi

By thehighasia
October 3, 2022
in :  Governance, Media, News, Opinion, Pakistan, Politics
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The senior journalist and TV commentator said the PML-N could have governor’s rule imposed in Punjab. He said this is what he foresaw coming, sooner or later The Friday Times (TFT) editor Najam Sethi said on Friday that no more ‘audio leaks’ on the governing coalition will follow since Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan’s man on the dark web …

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Scrutinising US Indo-Pacific Strategy

By thehighasia
September 11, 2022
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Indo-Pacific Security Dialogue

By Hamdan Ahmed After widening Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QSD) strategic agenda, particularly focusing on limiting China in the Asian-Pacific region, the United States announced the Indo-Pacific Strategy in February 2022. The strategy has set up some ambiguous yet interesting objectives for the Indo-Pacific region, which was a battleground for the US-China economic and strategic competition lately and has now become …

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Tajik authorities intensify crackdown on Pamiris

By thehighasia
September 10, 2022
in :  Central Asia, Conflict, Democracy, extremism, High Asia Region, Human Rights, Latest, Pamir Ranges, Politics, Resistance, Tajikistan
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Clampdown on Pamiris

Since July, the courts have handed down more than 5,000 verdicts with heavy sentences against members of a Shiite Ismaili ethnic group. About 100 detainees, including seven journalists, are awaiting trial. Authorities in Tajikistan have forced the closure of two religious bodies in the capital Dushanbe within a succession of a week, according to media reports. The institutions are the …

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Call for an end to enforced disappearances

By thehighasia
September 4, 2022
in :  Crime, Human Rights, New, Pakistan, Politics, Slider
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Discussion

Senator Farhatullah Babar says a new instrument of law to redefine the mandate of ISI and to bring the intelligence agencies under the ambit of the constitution to tackle the issue.

It should also provide guarantees that those deprived of liberty are kept at a fully authorized place of detention, provide protection to victims, their families and witnesses and also compensation to them.

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Imperialisms in our times

By thehighasia
August 13, 2022
in :  China, Imperialism, Marxism, Politics, Socialism
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Chinese Imperialism?

Making sense of ‘Chinese characteristics’. Is it time for the Pakistani Left to start talking about Chinese ‘imperialism’? by Aasim Sajjad Akhtar Into the third decade of the 21st century, what does it mean to talk of imperialism(s) and empire? Can every unequal relationship of exchange, power and cultural diffusion be considered imperialistic? How do we sift through the complexities …

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Anti-imperialism and night where all cows are black

By thehighasia
August 8, 2022
in :  Democracy, Nationalism, Opinion, Pakistan, Politics
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Anti-Imperialism

Imran Khan’s politics is a turbo-charged neoliberalism... a shallow ideological cocktail of religion, patriotism, and praetorianism.

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Venal ruling class

By thehighasia
August 8, 2022
in :  Democracy, Governance, Opinion, Politics, South Asia
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Imperialism

By Dr Aasim Sajjad Akhtar It is all so predictable. The raids on homes of opposition leaders and workers. Heavy-handed baton charges and tear-gas shelling. The same opposition workers who decried state repression then engaged in wanton destruction of public property — and burning trees for good measure! We have been here many times before. A few months ago, it …

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Afghan women’s woes

By thehighasia
July 16, 2022
in :  Afghanistan, Central Asia, Education, extremism, Human Rights, People, Politics, Society, Tajikistan, Women
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Afghan women's woes

In addition to needing a male chaperone to go places within the war-torn country, women are now required to bring a male family member with them if they hope to study abroad.

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Race, culture, terrorism and ‘deep structures’

By thehighasia
July 11, 2022
in :  Climate Change, Conflict, Culture, Democracy, Ecology, Education, Europe, extremism, History, Nationalism, People, Politics, Race, Society, Taliban, US, World
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Interview

Akbar Ahmad and Noam Chomsky examine examine issues of race in America which engender different forms of violence and terrorism. While race is on the surface of society, understanding how it related to society’s deeper structures can help make sense of it. It is the failure to tackle race issues that is partly responsible for the turbulence in contemporary American society.

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Fake is the new real

By thehighasia
July 8, 2022
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By Aasim Sajjad Akhtar Over the past three months, a handful of highly influential news celebrities have left no stone unturned in support of the PTI and former prime minister Imran Khan. They have taken narratives about conspiracy and corruption to new heights. One of the most prominent of these individuals was arrested in highly choreographed fashion earlier this week. …

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AWP vows to emerge as a genuine alternative force

By thehighasia
June 25, 2022
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By News Desk The Awami Workers’ Party (AWP) is committed to becoming a genuine alternative force by uniting all Left-wing, progressive, secular and nationalist parties and groups and launching a country-wide struggle for bringing about change in the existing decadent system and building a socialist society. This was the gist of the speeches made by Federal President Yousuf Mustikhan, General …

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HKP: New Left party to strive for labourers’ rights

By thehighasia
June 24, 2022
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HKP launch

Haqooq-e-Khalq Party presents a charter of demand including Rs40,000 minimum wage for labourers; it will field labourers as its candidates in the local government and general elections.

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Pakistan’s neoliberal state is a machine for plunder

By thehighasia
June 10, 2022
in :  Development, Ecology, Economy, Governance, Marxism, Opinion, Pakistan, Political Philosophy, Politics, Revolution
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Neoliberal state

Pakistani neoliberalism hasn’t rolled back state intervention in the economy. Building on a predatory tradition that dates back to British colonial rule, it has used state power to enforce the ruthless exploitation of Pakistan’s workers and natural resources.

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Call for an end to GB’s constitutional deprivation

By thehighasia
June 8, 2022
in :  Gilgit-Baltistan, High Asia Region, Human Rights, Judiciary, Politics
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HRCP mission to GB

The mission is especially alarmed by the apparent surge in suicide cases in various parts of GB, particularly in district Ghizer. A large number of these victims comprise women and the mission has reason to believe that some cases of honour killings have been labelled suicide and thus ‘forgotten

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Tracking 3 decades of dramatic glacial lake growth

In the largest-ever study of glacial lakes, researchers using a 30-year satellite data record have found that the volume of these lakes worldwide has increased by about 50% since 1990 as glaciers melt and retreat due to climate change. Courtest: NASA/National Geographic

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