Tag: democracy

There was a direct linear connection between Bhutto’s death and my near fatal accident. I will illustrate the principle of ...

The veneer of democracy, so carefully plastered over Pakistan’s political system since the fall of its last dictator, appears to ...

No day is an easy day in Pakistani politics, especially if you have the courage to stand against the powerful ...

The Asma Jahangir Conference 2022 was held at the Avari Hotel in Lahore. One of the sessions was on 'Reluctance ...

On October 8, 2022, Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa addressed a batch of graduating cadets, and commented, ...

The PTI chairman and former premier had secured a victory on five National Assembly seats in the 2018 general elections, ...

Since its inception in 1947, the process of accountability in Pakistan has devolved into a cycle of political victimisation and manipulation. Over ...

Uncle Ben’s iconic words to Peter Parker aka Spiderman “with great power comes great responsibility” have transitioned into an oft-heard ...

A clip from a recent rally by Imran Khan has gone viral wherein the former PM has indicated that he ...

The global rise in populist politics is an extremely worrying trend that has implications not only for the future democracy, ...

Imran Khan’s recent comment on the appointment of the new army chief has taken the country’s politics to another low. ...

The last two weeks have been a political rollercoaster. From sedition, to attacks on the judiciary, to the rupee’s continuing ...

Over the past seven and a half decades we as a nation haven't achieved much to cherish, and find ourselves ...

“I don’t agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” This ...

Earlier this year, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Imran Khan adopted a pretty bold anti-establishment stance after the vote of no-confidence ...

Started with alignment with the Islamist parties. Then came the anti-US rhetoric. Next was the ‘chor, chor, chor’ mantra. Plus ...

Since 1990s, global poverty has declined and democracy has spread. But these global trends have failed to strengthen fragile states, ...

The creation of Pakistan as a separate sovereign state is far too complex a political phenomenon and historical idea to ...

Since the 1990s, Pakistan has had a ‘youth bulge’. Most of our population is between 15 to 29 years of ...

As Pakistan approaches its 75th birthday, the future seems uncertain. Generally, this ought to be a time for celebration. A ...

It is a moment of awakening for political parties. The recent PML-N defeat in Punjab by-election in their own home ...

The Movement for Restoration of Democracy (MRD) was formed in 1981 with eleven parties as its components, with the goal ...

Urban sustainability is an umbrella concept. In the context of a historical process, urbanisation in modern-day South Asia is prominently ...

In any parliamentary form of government, political parties and leaders demonstrate flexibility -- they strike deals and make compromises to ...

Democracy is not just a set of procedures and rules, indispensable as they may be, but also a culture and ...

In the post-General Ziaul Haq period, Pakistan’s un-savvy political class with their unsophisticated ways of conducting themselves in power struggles, ...