The Rocky Road Ahead For The Party In Power
Politics is about a persistent, unending and continuous contest between elites. But if the elites, in order to absolve themselves...
Politics is about a persistent, unending and continuous contest between elites. But if the elites, in order to absolve themselves...
The fascist West is not an outlandish concept anymore. The post-Second World War order that came into being after defeating...
Pakistan is in the heart of a tough neighbourhood. With India to the east and Afghanistan to the west, no...
What unique capacity does the military possess that political parties in Pakistan do not? Why are the political leaders in...
No one in Pakistan doubts the political reality that the military and more specifically its high command dominates the country's...
In 2008, Nawaz Sharif returned to Pakistan after almost seven years of exile. He found out that he was as...
Imran Khan’s political campaign related to the alleged 'foreign conspiracy' is based on the premise that people of Pakistan will...
In terms of reporting and analysing political developments in our society, what we are witnessing on our television screens is...
The political use of religion has proved to be a highly divisive force in our short history of 75 years....
Sometimes candid admissions by leaders can expose dysfunctionality of the country's political system. This is what happened on May 21,...
We have a strong tendency to label our opponents as fascist. Imran Khan has attracted this label more than any...
Pakistan’s right-wingers possess the tendency to romanticize wars and distort the meaning of revolutions. They use glorified images of medieval...
In June 2010, US President Barack Obama fired his commander of multinational forces in Afghanistan, Gen Stanley McChrystal, for insubordination....
The failure or inability of Pakistan Army’s spokesman or any other official from the service to articulate the exact and...
Imran Khan could singlehandedly destroy Pakistan’s political system. Let us consider how. Only a few days after former Prime Minister...
Ever since the creation of Pakistan, a long line of religious ideologues have justified their unpalatable political messages through emotional...
Punjabi political elites are sweethearts of the Pakistan state or to be more precise military establishment. And among Punjabi political...
When on December 17, 2019, the military statement expressed “pain and anguish” over the death sentence in absentia on treason...
It was not without reasons that the Imran Khan government was described as a hybrid regime by most of the...
Undoubtedly, the DG ISPR’s latest press conference has dealt a devastating blow to former prime minister Imran Khan. Maj Gen...
On April 14, 2018, COAS, General Qamar Javed Bajwa uncharacteristically expressed his desire to normalise relations with India. “It is...
Is Pakistan’s military establishment neutral in the ongoing political crisis in the country? The problem with answering this question is...
A specter of General Ziaul Haq is haunting Pakistan’s political and constitutional system again. Zia wanted to establish a supra...
On August 20, 2008, two missiles fired from a US drone killed eight people in Wana, South Waziristan. This was...
It is a widely believed myth in Pakistan that Henry Kissinger threatened Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to make a “horrible example”...
Allama Iqbal was convinced that an elected parliament could perform the function of Ijtihad (creative interpretation of Islamic law) in...
In literature, Existentialism starts from Dostoyevsky’s famous maxim...
A court in Lahore has sentenced a young...
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