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Pakistan’s February 8 general elections resulted in a split vote, with no party securing a clear national majority. Voting occurred for 366…
Farooq Tariq
Farooq Tariq is the General Secretary of the Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee, a network of 26 peasant organizations and a coalition member of the international platform La Via Campesina.
The political crisis is best manifested by the fact that almost half the National Assembly (Lower House of the parliament) members have…
Cancel the debt, or let the Bretton Woods group profit from climate disaster, writes Farooq Tariq. At the time of writing, more…
A mass working-class alternative in the shape of trade unions and political parties linked with social movements is the most effective manner to counter religious fundamentalism
A massive repression of the most militant but peaceful peasant movement–the Anjman Mozareen Punjab (AMP)–is underway
Late-night August 30 meetings by Khan and Tahir Qadri with the army chief General Raheel Sharif have been severely criticised by members of parliament as showing the weakness of the PMLN government
In recent days, the already tenuous political situation in Pakistan has made a turn toward the worse. Musharraf’s government clamped down first…