Tag: Pakistan politics

Since Imran Khan’s dismissal as the Prime Minister in April of last year, PTI has launched an offensive against the ...

When it comes down to our politicians and their 'sometimes' unfathomable ways of doing politics, there is no better explanation ...

The top leadership of the PML-N failed to convince Asif Ali Zardari to boycott the 2018 general elections. Zardari was ...

The week has been bizarre. People are asking what kind of democracy is this – where democratically elected assemblies are ...

What we witnessed between Wednesday evening and Thursday early morning was a circus in the deepest sense of the word. ...

The story is set in the backdrop of a third world country where an omnipotent military, in collusion with various ...

Good times don’t last long The Great Leader, stationed in Lahore, is fuming at the way his allies in the ...

The child-assassin who killed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto on the fateful day that was December 27th, 2008, assassinated more than just ...

In deeply patriarchal communities, when male chauvinism decides a matter and deems it sacred, women have no choice but to ...

As the year 2022 ends, Pakistan’s deepening crisis of governance appears to be intractable. For all practical purposes Pakistan has ...

The seemingly never-ending political turmoil in Pakistan has taken a turn for the worse. A raging populist is threatening to ...

Benazir Bhutto emerged as a symbol of resistance and democracy and her demise was a loss for both the PPP ...

Fifteen years later, the wound caused by Benazir Bhutto's murder has not yet fully healed. Her passing left a void ...

On Wednesday November 23, Moni Mohsin’s latest book was launched and was made available for purchase at the Last Word ...

A US leader has picked on Pakistan again. Joe Biden has branded Pakistan as one of the most dangerous nations ...

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

Dostoevsky’s epic novel was about the crime of a lone killer. Iqbal, our founding philosopher, however believes that there could ...

Pakistan’s parliamentary democracy is in a mess. It’s not a pretty picture. Deliberation, discourse, and the engagement integral to a ...

There has been a vicious cycle that has gradually become a norm in our political dynamics. Every political party that ...

Pakistan has a new government – because, arguably, the PTI government lost support of the establishment and ex-PM’s visit to ...

Pakistan nearly went off the rails because of the desperate antics of former prime minister Imran Khan — before the ...

“Politics” in Pakistan is a misused word. Where in other parts of the world it is a way to generate ...

A People Centric NSP  National security was never meant to be a “military alone”– or for that matter, “anything  alone”—affair. ...

There are reasons to believe that the establishment is disillusioned with more than just Prime Minister Imran Khan — their ...