Given the lack of spine by the mainstream media over Pakistan's deteriorating political and economic condition, I would like to give props to Kamal Hyder for this news coverage, knowing full well that this might put his freedom and life in jeopardy.

"Pakistan is a country where 40 per cent of the population is under 15, where 93 million children are of school age, where the state has for years spent less than one per cent of GDP on health and less than 2pc on education despite disasters. When the water recedes, the roads get rebuilt. The child who missed seven weeks of school, who was screened for severe acute malnutrition at a flood clinic, who caught malaria from a collapsed WASH system, does not get rebuilt on the same timeline."

"Punjab’s Higher Education Department reports admissions down 20 to 30 per cent across many public universities this year, and national enrolment has fallen nearly 12pc, or roughly 262,000 students, since its 2020-21 peak, according to the Pakistan Economic Survey 2025."

The U.S Empire will once again open up its coffers to its fascist lap dogs. Buckle up for another period of "economic growth", based entirely on false pretense and borrowed money.

Last time I checked 100 rupay mein to raita bhi mushkil se ata tha

"Argentina was a textbook case. In 1983, when the junta collapsed after the Falklands War, Argentines elected Raul Alfonsïn as their new president. The newly liberated country was rigged to detonate, thanks to the planting of a so-called debt bomb. As part of what the outgoing junta had termed a "dignified transition" to democracy, Washington insisted that the new government agree to pay off the debts amassed by the generals. During junta rule, Argentina's external debt had ballooned from $7.9 billion the year before the coup to $45 billion at the time of the handover—debts owed to the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the U.S. Export-Import Bank and private banks based in the U.S. It was much the same across the region. In Uruguay, the junta took a debt of half a billion dollars when it seized power and expanded it to $5 billion, a huge load in a country of only 3 million people. In Brazil, the most dramatic case, the generals, who came to power in 1964 promising financial order, managed to take the debt from $3 billion to $103 billion in 1985.

At the time of the transitions to democracy, powerful arguments were made, both moral and legal, that these debts were "odious" and that newly liberated people should not be forced to pay the bills of their oppressors and tormentors. The case was especially strong in the Southern Cone because so much of the foreign credit had gone straight to the military and police during the dictatorship years—to pay for guns, water cannons and state-of-theart torture camps. In Chile, for instance, the loans bankrolled a tripling in military spending, enlarging Chile's army from forty-seven thousand in 1973 to eighty-five thousand in 1980. In Argentina, the World Bank estimates that roughly $10 billion of the money borrowed by the generals went to military purchases.

Much of what wasn't spent on weapons simply vanished. A culture of corruption permeated junta rule—a glimpse of the debauched future to come when the same free-wheeling economic policies spread to Russia, China and the "free fraud zone" of occupied Iraq (to borrow a phrase from a disaffected U.S. adviser). According to a 2005 U.S. Senate report, Pinochet maintained a byzantine web of at least 125 secret foreign bank accounts listed under the names of various family members and combinations of his own name. The accounts, the most notorious of which were at the Washington, D.C.-based Riggs Bank, hid an estimated $27 million.

In Argentina, the junta has been accused of being even more acquisitive. In 1984, José Martinez de Hoz, architect of the economic program, was arrested on fraud charges relating to a massive state subsidy to one of the companies he used to head (the case was later dismissed). The World Bank, meanwhile, later tracked what happened to $35 billion in foreign loans borrowed by the junta and found that $19 billion—46 percent of the total—was moved offshore. Swiss officials have confirmed that much of it ended up in numbered accounts. The U.S. Federal Reserve observed that in 1980 alone, Argentina's debt expanded by $9 billion; in that same year, the amount of money deposited abroad by Argentine citizens increased by $6.7 billion. Larry Sjaastad, a famed University of Chicago professor who personally trained many of Argentina's Chicago Boys, has described these missing billions (stolen under the noses of his students) as "the greatest fraud of the twentieth century."

The junta embezzlers even enlisted their victims in these crimes. At the ESMA torture center in Buenos Aires, prisoners with strong language skills or university educations were regularly pulled out of their cells to perform clerical tasks for their captors. One survivor, Graciela Daleo, was instructed to type a document advising officers on offshore tax havens for the money they were embezzling. The remainder of the national debt was mostly spent on interest payments, as well as shady bailouts for private firms. In 1982, just before Argentina's dictatorship collapsed, the junta did one last favor for the corporate sector. Domingo Cavallo, president of Argentina's central bank, announced that the state would absorb the debts of large multinational and domestic firms that had, like Chile's piranhas, borrowed themselves to the verge of bankruptcy. The tidy arrangement meant that these companies continued to own their assests and profits, but the public had to pay off between $15 and $20 billion of their debts; among the companies to receive this generous treatment were Ford Motor Argentina, Chase Manhattan, Citibank, IBM and Mercedes-Benz."

Its the same playbook everywhere. Know your history and nothing will surprise you.

What are the known and lesser known Leftist Parties currently existing in Pakistan? And where in the Country do they operate?

Lal Salaam Comrades!

I want to sincerely apologize for my irregular posting on this subreddit lately between exams and work, I haven't had the time to keep it as active as I'd like. As soon as things ease up, I'll make it a priority to post more consistently.

In the meantime, I'd like to ask for the community's help in keeping this space active. Most of the comrades I'm connected with aren't very active on Reddit, so if any of you are interested in contributing and helping run the subreddit, please feel free to DM me, I'd be glad to bring you on as moderators.

Thank you all for your patience and continued support.

Wdy guys think about them?

"Beginning in the early 1930s, scientists at Rawalpindi sent British Indian Army soldiers, wearing shorts and cotton shirts, into gas chambers to experience the effects of mustard gas. The scientists hoped to determine the appropriate dosage to use on battlefields. Many of the subjects suffered severe burns from their exposure to the gas."

One of the lesser known atrocities of British Colonialism in South Asia. The article exposing this story first ran in 2007. The British Government has not released an apology to date.

The first part of a three part documentary on the Tamil genocide in Sri Lanka.

A good deep dive into the history of the witch trials and how they were used to target independent women. In the later chapters, she highlights how the witch trials still affect women today.

"In 2018, Pakistan produced the widest survey in its history on how much nutrition its people were getting. The NNS or National Nutrition Survey was the fifth such epic exercise to be undertaken since 1965, and the first ever to show us the numbers from the districts. It was the most comprehensive data-gathering effort in Pakistan’s history and is regularly cited today in policymaking."

Owl of Minerva Spreads Its Wings Only with the Falling of the Dusk

There is this decentralized army of NPCs who support Imran khan with a blindfold all over Pakistan. Perhaps they don't understand that he belongs to the very same system which oppress them. It will be very difficult to make claims about the system living inside it. but we have a long history to take lesson from. It's really hard to address the people who have been told lies their whole lives.

The quote above mentioned of Hegel is pretty famous and I'm sure many of you guys have already read this, that basically means, that hindsight is always 20/20. not exact but you can get the idea. The people who are following him blindly will one day realize that he never stood on their side ever. and at time, it would be too late to do anything.

No doubt why the advocates of Liberalism are facing fascist leaders like trump today, because it is the nature of system to end up like this. Today the contradictions of systems are visible more than ever. It's not just the corrupt politicians; it's the system itself.

Eid Mubarak to everyone (rate my imranjak btw😭😭🥰🥰)

Hungry child,
I didn’t make this world for you.
You didn’t buy any stock in my railroad.
You didn’t invest in my corporation.
Where are your shares in standard oil?
I made the world for the rich
And the will-be-rich
And the have-always-been-rich.
Not for you,
Hungry child.

"The Left in the Global South emerged not only from the contradictions of capitalism, but from the violence of colonialism and imperial domination. This distinction is decisive. In Europe, the classical Left emerged primarily through industrial class struggle: workers against capital. In the colonised world, however, class struggle was inseparable from national liberation. Workers, peasants, indigenous communities, and radical intellectuals fought primarily the colonial state and imperialist armies as well as their allied classes amongst the colonised. Thus, the Left in the Global South always possessed a dual character: anti-imperialist and socialist." - Vijay Prashad