Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Friends of Aafia Siddiqui, the The Aafia Movement, November 2024 Editor’s note: I have been following Aafia Siddiqui’s case since around 2010. I met her sister Fowzia in Pakistan in 2012, along with her mother and her children. Her father had died shortly before she was abducted with her children and imprisoned. The family is very well educated and[…]
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by Robert Hunziker, published on Counterpunch, June 21, 2024 When I think of life in Pakistan, I think of the cost of losing Imran Khan to US “interests” ….but this is a different nightmare I was not aware of . I thought this article was going to be about the wars, but it is just as devastating for those who[…]
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by Judy Bello, December 22, 2023 Aafia Siddiqui, a young Pakistani woman from an upper middle class family in Karachi, came to the U.S. to attend the University of Houston where her brother was already a student, received her bachelors degree from MIT, and a doctorate from Brandeis University in neuropsychology. Her father, a doctor, had worked in Africa as[…]
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by Craig Murray, published on Consortium News, August 9, 2023 Pakistan has imposed a media blackout over the deposed prime minister and thousands of new political prisoners incarcerated in appalling conditions. Condemnation in the U.K. and U.S. has been non-existent. Given the large population in the U.K. of Pakistani origin, the lack of serious media coverage of the overthrow and[…]
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by Ahmed Adel, published on InfoBRICS, May 12, 2023 Imran Khan continues to be a threat to U.S. hegemony in West Asia. It was Khan who drove the U.S. drones out of Pakistan and it is Khan whose popular party teaches democracy to those who participate through every day practice. While the ruling class in Pakistan represents a local oligarchy,[…]
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by Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja, published on Countercurrents, May 11, 2023 Imran Khan was driven from office by a US backed coup just over a year ago. He was then arrested, but freed by the Supreme Court in Pakistan. The entire time, masses of Pakistani people have gone to the streets to contest his removal from power. The new powerful[…]
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by Sonali Kolhatkar, distributed by Economy for All, 9/17/2022 The death of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-serving monarch of British royalty, has sparked global fascination and spawned thousands of clickbait reports of the details of her funeral. Americans, who centuries ago rejected monarchy, are seemingly obsessed with the ritualism, bizarrely mourning the demise of an elderly and fabulously wealthy woman[…]
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by Pippa Bartolotti, September 6, 2022 As the water levels in Pakistan continue to rise, the exhausted people of that land run out of ground to live on. In this case it is not the sea level rise which has concerned us for so long, but the ever-faster rate of glacier melt. It is astounding that Pakistan has 7000 glaciers[…]
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By Farooq Tariq, published on Socialist Action, August 31, 2022 Summary on Pakistan’s flood situation Incessant monsoon rains and flash floods have devastated Pakistan, affecting millions of people and incurring huge economic losses. The scale of devastation According to the official figure of National Disaster Management Authority, floods have so far claimed the lives of 1350 people. 1 million houses[…]
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by Abdul Jabbar, published on Multipolarista, April 25, 2022 In 2012 I joined a peace delegation to Pakistan to meet with Drone victims. The delegation was sponsored by Imran Khan and his PTI party. We were warmly welcomed at a party event, where we met some of the people. I remember there were elections within the party for various positions[…]
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