Pakistan

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Pakistan: How a regional warmonger came to host US-Iran peace talks

Farooq Sulehria — Pakistan may seek to play the role of peacemaker globally but regionally it acts as a warmonger.
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Joint declaration: South Asia stands with Cuba against the blockade!

We, the undersigned Communist, workers’, and left-wing parties of South Asia, issue this collective call in firm and unwavering solidarity with the government and people of Cuba.
Taliban soldiers pose as they stand on a Humvee in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province, which shares a border with Pakistan on February 28, 2026.

A war neglected by the world — Afghanistan and Pakistan

Farooq Tariq — The attack by US and Israeli imperialism on Iran has overshadowed the recent war between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Afghanistan–Pakistan war, militarism and a left response to the regional crisis

Farooq Sulehria argues that the current confrontation reflects a deeper crisis of the regional order — one whose costs will be borne overwhelmingly by working people on both sides of the border.
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Frankenstein at the border: Pakistan, the Taliban, and the wounds of a region

Farooq Sulehria looks at the crisis along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, the misconceptions within Pakistan’s military establishment, and the shifting global and regional power landscape.
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Forging the steel of unity: Left politics in contemporary Pakistan

Ammar Ali Jan defends Haqooq-e-Khalq Party’s anti-imperialist position, critiques sectarian and messianic tendencies on the Pakistani Left, and advances a dialectical, universalist strategy for socialist renewal in the country.
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‘Azad’ Kashmir’s unheard rebellion: Voices from the people’s struggle

Haris Qadeer — Pakistan-Administered Jammu and Kashmir (PAJK) have experienced one of the most significant waves of mass mobilisation in recent years.
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Political self-determination for Kashmir

Sushovan Dhar — Among the most affected by the recent Indo-Pakistani armed conflict are the people of Kashmir, who find themselves ensnared in this geopolitical rivalry.
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Caught between the military junta and Arakan Army: Rohingyas and the fight for Myanmar’s Rakhine state

Rohingya groups are fighting to reclaim their rights — against the Arakan Army, the military junta and foreign powers responsible for their persecution. 
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India-Pakistan: Towards disaster

As the dust settles after the latest clash between India and Pakistan, Ammar Ali Jan reflects on its wider significance.
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One hundred hours of solitude: A Pakistani peacenik recounts the India-Pakistan war

The India-Pakistan war is apparently over for now — but it has not stopped for peaceniks, recounts Farooq Sulehria.
Citizens share a box of sweets and hold up posters celebrating the success of Operation Sindoor in Bengaluru on Wednesday

Pahalgam, Operation Sindoor and after: Lessons India must learn (plus: Pahalgam, Operation Sindoor, ceasefire: Pressing questions awaiting answers)

Dipankar Bhattacharya — Events from the terrorist attack in Pahalgam to the announced ceasefire have given rise to questions regarding India's national security and foreign policy.

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