T o be relatable, if not always accessible, democratic governance needs not just ideals, plans and frameworks but also flesh-and-blood people...
Mainstream parties have many choices; so how do they pick their candidates?
Nayab Ali says appropriate arrangements should be made for transgender people on the polling day
The women elected on the reserved seats are often expected to play the second fiddle to their colleagues elected against general seats.
Some candidates are so important to their parties that losing an election will not diminish their relevance
The electable candidate is a quintessential character in the Pakistani electoral drama
Are the candidates described as accidental less effective than the anticipated ones?
