Tag: democracy

It seemed like a scene from Paris of 1789, when an angry, unruly mob stormed the Bastille prison and freed ...

‘Democracy’ has been declining globally every year for the last fifteen years, most significantly in the US and India, the ...

During a recent appearance on a TV show, controversial journalist and ‘intellectual’ Hassan Nisar stated that the country needed a ...

Pakistan’s Islamist and India’s secular experiments both turned out to be failures. In the case of Pakistan, the modernist form ...

As a young man in the late 1980s, I often visited a recluse by the name of Dr G.M. Mehkri, ...

Prime Minister Imran Khan recently stated that force will not eliminate extremism. Instead, he said that unfiltered content on phones ...

The newly appointed chairman of the National Rehmatunlil Alameen Authority, Ejaz Akram, holds controversial views about democracy and ethnic groups ...

"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants,” wrote Isaac Newton in a letter ...

Populist authoritarianism is not a fad. Its enduring appeal in both established and nascent democracies confirms this. Populist leaders wrapped ...

‘Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion.’ This is a famous quote of the former Chief Justice ...

Pakistan and 109 other countries have been invited to a virtual democracy summit by United States President Joe Biden. India ...

Supreme Court judge Justice Qazi Faez Isa said that it was unforgivable that Pakistan was listed at the 139th position ...

Putting the authoritarian Bangladesh and its leader under the microscope that other authoritarian leaders have been under would help us ...

In the last 40 years, Latin America made the most significant gains worldwide, becoming the third most democratic region in ...

The dust has yet to settle from America’s hastily withdrawal from Afghanistan and instead of engaging with the Taliban to ...

Two weeks ago, I wrote of the dysfunction of modern politics, which according to many polls from democracies where polls ...

Earlier this week, I tuned in to a webinar on the current political situation in Tunisia. I have never been ...

Rooted in British colonial legacy, the parliamentary system of government has continued to fail. Given Pakistan’s political realities, the presidential ...

With a population of more than a billion people of diverse backgrounds, stable systems, a robust democracy and a belief ...

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government, as well as lawmakers from the opposition Pakistan Peoples Party and Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA), have voiced ...

The Bible says that “Pride goeth before a fall.” So, was it pride that motivated Joe Biden, our cool and ...