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Hardline Hindu nationalist outfits have petitioned courts in Uttar Pradesh (UP) state, calling for Muslims to be prevented from entering ...

In June 2010, US President Barack Obama fired his commander of multinational forces in Afghanistan, Gen Stanley McChrystal, for insubordination. ...

If the existing political and constitutional morass bedeviling the country was not serious enough, President Dr Alvi has written a ...

Since the present regime has promised to bring about electoral reforms before they call for fresh elections, I am proposing ...

Two days ago, President Arif Alvi rejected Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's advice to remove Punjab Governor Omar Sarfraz Cheema from ...

Pakistan grapples with yet another leader who refuses to settle for anything but power. The ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan ...

On 20 December 1971, hours after being sworn in as President/Chief Martial Law Administrator of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto made ...

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

For a nation, at any given point in time, the most dismal of fears is to know that the future ...

The supporters of former PM Imran Khan have taken his constitutional removal from office very personally. It doesn’t matter if ...

After one month of a province of 120 million people having been callously placed in a rudderless state by the ...

The environment of political drama, chaos and uncertainty is eerily familiar. In the ensuing days, we will see tens of ...

Pakistani analyst Nadeem Farooq Paracha (NFP) recently shared a tweet by the former Federal Minister for Human Rights, Shireen Mazari, ...

The United Kingdom’s constitution is uncodified. Theoretically, all legal powers are exercised in the name of the monarch, currently the ...

I’m sure by now you must have come across people (mostly on social media) who let loose a barrage of ...

PTI leader Imran Khan has told his supporters to prepare themselves and await his call to proceed to the federal ...

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

It was a sweltering mid-morning in the summer of 2004. A lawyer friend was acting on behalf of the Niazi ...

Dear Prime Minister, congratulations! But you have only won half the battle: in these terribly polarising times, winning the prime-ministership ...

The Lahore High Court (LHC) has rejected a plea for early elections in the Punjab Assembly, filed by PML-N leader ...

The last three-and-a-half years have all been about Khan, not about Pakistan. All the discussions have been about him – ...

When Paul Keating, the former prime minister of Australia, built on the four successive election victories of his legendary predecessor, ...

As all eyes are now on the Supreme Court case which will determine the constitutionality of the Deputy Speaker’s egregious ...

Like many other countries, the constitutional scheme of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is based on trichotomy of power, viz ...

A five-member bench headed Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial and including Justice Ijazul Ahsan, Justice Mohammad Ali ...

The President of Pakistan Arif Alvi has written to Prime Minister Imran Khan and opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif to propose ...