Nothing out-of-the-box has emerged, a week after Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Imran Khan, stressed the need for “out-of-the-box solutions” for economic progress, whilst presiding a meeting of a think-tank he established for the economy on 11 July 20202. We ask, how can this regime call for out-of-the-box solutions whilst locking itself into the current system of capitalist colonialism? No new or unique solution for our economic woes has so far emerged…

same day that Pakistan’s Prime Minister declared, “The martyrs of 13 July 1931 were the forefathers of today’s Kashmiri resistance,” Pakistan’s Foreign Office announced that Pakistan will allow Afghanistan to send goods to India using the Wagah Border from 15 July 2020. So even whilst praising the Muslims of Kashmir for their patient resistance against India, Pakistan’s rulers stabs them in the back

Once again the Pakistan Ulema Council under the leadership of Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi gave a “Fatwa” to support colonialist rule, this time endorsing the building of a Hindu temple in Islamabad on state expense.

Struck by the Coronavirus disease pandemic, the heart of Pakistan’s economy, Karachi, has been crushed by the power sector. Whenever summer peaks, K-Electric starts cutting electricity supply, whilst overbilling breaks the backs of the people. In 2005, the privatization drive that gave rise to K-Electric was touted as reducing the burden of losses on the state and allowing cost effectiveness under private management.