Pakistan

Pakistan: Climate catastrophe caused by Global North

Following months of intense humidity and a catastrophic heat wave — temperatures reaching upwards of 124 F — Pakistan is…

September 12, 2022

Pakistan: Brutal lynching of Priyantha Kumara

Sialkot, Pakistan — Last week a mob tortured and then lit Priyantha Kumara on fire. Kumara, a Sri Lankan, was…

December 17, 2021

Pakistan: Corporate and state terror drives forced displacement

Karachi — On June 6, the Sindh Action Committee organized a protest and sit-in to draw attention to the systematic…

July 1, 2021

Pakistan: Resistance to state violence continues

On the Muslim holiday Eid Al-Fitr, Gujjar Nala and Orangi Nala residents, known as affectees, established a protest camp outside…

June 2, 2021

Asia del Sur: El afán de lucro impulsa el desalojo de los pobres

En Pakistán, Karachi Bachao Tehreek (KBT), una alianza de activistas locales que luchan contra los desalojos y las apropiaciones ilegales…

May 19, 2021

South Asia: Drive for profit fuels effort to evict poor

In Pakistan, Karachi Bachao Tehreek (KBT), an alliance of local activists struggling against evictions and illegal land grabs, reported that…

May 12, 2021

Pakistan: Hazara people resist ongoing genocide

Jan. 10 — On Jan. 3, gunmen abducted and executed 11 coal miners, all of whom belonged to Pakistan’s Hazara…

January 11, 2021

Pakistan: Say ‘No’ to Bahria Town!

Bahria Town, one of the largest private real estate development companies in Asia, is known for its overly opulent master-planned…

October 6, 2020

Global warming kills thousands in Asia

For the last two months, the Indian subcontinent has suffered through the grip of an unprecedented heat wave. Thousands of…

July 6, 2015

The killing of Osama bin Laden: U.S. lies exposed

On May 2, 2011, a team of U.S. Navy SEALs, acting under the direction of the CIA, carried out a…

May 21, 2015