
Unprecedented inflation of basic food items, petrol and utilities like electricity and gas, as well as the reactionary violence of the Tehrik-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) in Punjab and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in the Pashtun tribal districts, are indictments of all mainstream bourgeois parties as well as the omnipotent military establishment, the anti-people policies of which are pushing the country and its predominantly youthful population towards social, economic and political catastrophe.