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‘Head-Spinning Upset’ as Imran Khan’s PTI Wins Most Seats in Pakistani Election

In what many observers called a “shock” result, candidates affiliated with imprisoned former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party won the most National Assembly seats in a general election that raised international concerns over alleged fraud committed by the country’s powerful military.

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) said Saturday afternoon that independent candidates – 93 of them affiliated with Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party – won 100 of 265 contested parliamentary seats. The conservative Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz party, led by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, won 73 seats. Most pollsters had expected the party to win the most seats. The center-left Pakistan People’s Party was in third place with 54 seats. Nearly two days after polls closed, results were still not in for 10 seats.

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Ghassan Hage: Statement Regarding My Sacking From the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology

Ghassan J. Hage is a Lebanese-Australian academic serving as Future Generation Professor of Anthropology at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has held a number of visiting professorships including at the American University of Beirut, University of Nanterre – Paris X, the University of Copenhagen and Harvard. He has published several books on immigration, race and refugees in Australia. Reprinted from his blog with permission.

On Wednesday 31^st of January morning I woke up to an email from the right-wing newspaper Welt am Sonntag. They declared me to be ‘an activist for the BDS boycott movement for years’ which has never been the case. I take my job as an academic too seriously to have time to be an activist.

I was informed that the newspaper’s so-called ‘research team’ that ‘since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7th, we have noticed that you have been making increasingly drastic statements towards the State of Israel’… It didn’t seem to occur to them that maybe this was because Israel was engaging in an on-going mass murder of Palestinians.

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More Billions for Ukraine! Israel Too!

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission.

Joe Biden and the Democrats are fighting tooth-and-nail for more than $60 billion for Ukraine to further its war with Russia. If only they fought with the same tenacity to help the homeless and mentally ill in America.

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