The IMF ensures every budget bleeds Pakistan for interest payments, whilst continuously increasing the total taxation and slashing subsidies. Under the previous IMF budget, the Bajwa-Imran regime paid Rs. 3,000 billion in interest and raised Rs. 5,000 billion in taxation, crushing the poor and indebted. Under the current IMF budget, the Bajwa-Sharif regime will now pay Rs. 4,000 billion in interest, whilst raising the taxation target to Rs. 7,000 billion.

The barrage of blasphemy spread from Denmark and France, to the rest of Europe and then on to the US. It has now even spread to the lowly mushrikeen Hindus. The honor of our beloved Prophet

Pakistan’s deceptively independent Democracy, in fact, enslaves Pakistan to US interests through red-lines. Political leadership is only given as much space as the red-lines of the American agenda for the region, including Pakistan, allows. Any crossing of American red-lines, means government, media and public arenas are all violently closed off, with all rights brutally seized.

The media commentators are trying to engage the people in debate over the London Plan and Islamabad March, as if there is any hope that these plans and political maneuvers will solve the problems of the people. Be it Maryam Aurangzeb, Shahbaz Gul or Rana Sanaullah, their rhetoric is like that of Nadr bin Harith, the chief of Quraysh, who recited stories of Rustam and Asfandyar,