Tag: democracy

The failure or inability of Pakistan Army’s spokesman or any other official from the service to articulate the exact and ...

Over the seven decades of its existence, Pakistan has not evolved as a democracy. The seed of democracy has clearly ...

Imran Khan could singlehandedly destroy Pakistan’s political system. Let us consider how. Only a few days after former Prime Minister ...

The country witnessed paroxysms of rage and irrational hatred in the wake of a successful vote of no confidence motion ...

During the ongoing political crisis in Pakistan, there has been a great deal of energetic debate on the role of ...

Autocratic leaders prefer presidential form of government, and Imran Khan is no exception. Pakistan has witnessed a consistent deterioration of ...

In his interview in 1867 with St. Petersburgische Zeitunglt, the German aristocrat and first Chancellor of Prussia Otto von Bismarck ...

What happened in the Punjab Assembly was not unexpected. The viral videos made one’s head hang in shame. Democracy died ...

Consumerism, or the preoccupation of society with the acquisition of consumer goods, largely emerged from the 19th century onwards. It ...

A speaker in a parliamentary system of governance is one of the most significant figures. No doubt before being elected ...

“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.” “There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.” These quotes are attributed ...

The session on April 3, 2022, of the National Assembly of Pakistan has raised many questions. It has become more ...

The Pakistani nation has been plunged into a constitutional crisis by the person who rode the wave of populism to ...

A specter of General Ziaul Haq is haunting Pakistan’s political and constitutional system again. Zia wanted to establish a supra ...

The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) has warned that the political turmoil in the wake of the vote of no-confidence against ...

Ishtiaq Ahmed in his book Jinnah: His Success, Failures, and Role in History (Vanguard 2021) - which must be regarded ...

There has been spate of articles lately about the changing nature of insurgency in Balochistan, with the leadership gradually veering ...

Historically, the Pakistan military establishment has been anti-democracy. They have maintained that politics and politicians impact national interests of Pakistan ...

The current political turmoil in Pakistan may lead to the ouster of Imran Khan, but it might also turn into ...

“General Faiz will become the next army chief.” This was the biggest ‘argument’ that many people put forth in response ...

Democracy is a collective concept. It is a system of government where the highest power resides with the wishes of ...

I traveled across the US last Tuesday and am now back in California for about six weeks. As is my ...

پاکستان ڈیموکریٹک موومنٹ کے سربراہ مولانا فضل الرحمان نے مشترکہ حزب اختلاف کی جانب سے وزیراعظم عمران خان، اسپیکر اسد ...

George Orwell in his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty Four asserts, "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two ...

The American ruling classes’ fantasies and political imagination about the advent and persistence of a uni-polar World after the demise ...

China has long been idolised by many countries in the developing world as a power that stands up for the ...