Tag: parliament

Political polarisation is at its peak in Pakistan is as accurate as saying water is denser than air. There is ...

Much has been written about the Supreme Court’s opinion in the Presidential Reference on Article 63-A of the Constitution of ...

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

The PTI dissent, Noor Alam Khan presented a bill in the National Assembly on May 10 that called for the ...

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 ...

In the past month, there has been much discussion on whether the Superior Courts can interfere in parliamentary procedure and ...

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

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

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

Faced with an almost certain defeat in a vote of no confidence that was supposed to happen on the 1st ...

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

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

When playing chess, there often comes a point where you or your opponent is dominating, and a checkmate is imminent. ...

In January 2021, the grief-stricken families of the ill-fated Hazara coal miners had refused to bury the bodies of their ...

For all intents and purposes, the “selected” prime minister, Imran Khan, is on a ventilator, fighting for his government’s survival. ...

Most members of the parliament owe their memberships to votes garnered through political parties of which they are members. However, ...

Interestingly, the infamous era of Thatcherism in the UK was ushered in by a successful vote of no-confidence against the ...

After lengthy deliberations, the Speaker of the National Assembly Asad Qaiser has finally summoned the session of the House on ...

The events of the last few days have shown that the “hybrid” experiment is hurtling towards its denouement on account ...

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

Pakistan has always been a hard country, undergoing some form of transition since the days of Partition – and stability ...

The latest reaction of the political parties against the no-confidence motion proves that violence has become a hallmark of Pakistani ...

There is only one thing certain in politics, and that is the uncertainty of it. It is known to all ...

The provisions of Article 63-A are preventive rather than being punitive. Article 63A aims to restrict members of the Parliament ...

Scenes of violence were seen in the federal capital as Islamabad police began an operation inside the Parliament Lodges and ...