Geography Archives: Pakistan

The conference in Lahore centered on the principal contradictions of our time: world capitalism, neocolonialism, and imperialism on the one hand, and the forces resisting them on the other. It is rare for seminars like these to have such clarity of purpose.

These two conflicts, the aerial and the environmental, are interconnected. Both reflect a struggle for survival shaped by a Pakistani state that has prioritized military spending over water security, geopolitical interests over ecological planning, and the interests of large landowners over those of small farmers.

Iran has revised and resubmitted a 14-point ceasefire proposal to the U.S. via Pakistan, focusing on ending the war and confidence-building measures.

The move activates a bilateral agreement signed in 2008 but never previously used, and positions the Gwadar-Karachi corridor as a potential strategic link between South Asia and Eurasia through CPEC and China’s Belt and Road Initiative.

Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and Pakistan’s General Asim Munir—have found common cause in nominating Donald J. Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.

New Delhi’s escalation over the Indus River isn’t just environmental–it’s strategic, existential, and signals a new front in the war of attrition with Islamabad.

In the biggest aerial dogfight since World War II, two nuclear-armed rivals test the boundaries of conflict and deterrence–with some jaw-dropping surprises in the mix.

On the 23rd of March 1931, Bhagat Singh was hanged to death for waging revolution against the British colonial government in Lahore, Pakistan at the young age of 23.

Pakistan’s stalemated election showed that its ruling class is unable to contain the cascading social crisis in the country, but a genuine alternative is lacking, argues John Clarke.

This comes as candidates aligned with imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan maintained a lead in election results thus far.

The U.S. is so deeply mired in an unwinnable battle from the Levant to the Persian Gulf that only its adversaries in China, Russia, and Iran can bail it out.

Today’s immigrant policies and political discourses across most parts of the Global North are reminiscent of a colonial Othering.

AFTER Sri Lanka and Pakistan, Bangladesh has become the third country in our neighbourhood to become afflicted by a serious economic crisis.

Wars the U.S. waged in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan following September 11, 2001 caused at least 4.5 million deaths and displaced 38 to 60 million people, with 7.6 million children starving today, according to studies by Brown University.

Pakistan’s acute energy crisis is the immediate backdrop against which Foreign Minister Bilawal Zardari’s forthcoming talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow today need to be understood.

A spade, as the proverbial saying goes, ought to be called a spade.

Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Calamities are familiar to the people of Pakistan who have struggled through several catastrophic earthquakes, including those in 2005, 2013, and 2015 (to name the most damaging), as well as the horrendous floods of 2010. However, nothing could prepare the fifth most populated […]

Against the odds and powerful rivals pitted against him, former PM Khan’s win in Punjab elections is a victory for democracy and Pakistan’s sovereignty

2022 will likely be one of the coolest years Earth will experience in the foreseeable future; much more intense heat waves are in India and Pakistan’s future.

Washington has reactivated old cronies in Islamabad to unseat PM Imran Khan, but the latter has sown seeds of immense dissatisfaction with the old guard and their U.S. backers within the Pakistani public. And Khan’s domestic and foreign allies will not sit by idly either.