The year 2023 is coming to an end as yet another rough year for Pakistan’s democracy; 2024 appears to be no better either. We finally have a...
PTI chief Imran Khan speaks during an interview with AFP at his residence in Lahore on May 18, 2023, and PML-N supremo and former prime minister...
The three phases of elections. The News/FileAlthough a firm date for the 12th general election in the country has not yet been fixed by the Election...
Over a month after the dissolution of the 15th National Assembly of Pakistan, the constitutional requirement of appointing a date for timely general...
In Pakistan, there is never any shortage of crises given our dysfunctional and unconstitutional institutional arrangements. We are very adept at...
With the 15th National Assembly completing its five-year term, the prospects for timely and free and fair elections to vote in the next National...
Now that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has categorically announced the federal government’s departure upon the completion of the five-year term of...
We display a strange penchant for creating and re-creating bodies and forums and a peculiar proclivity to add to layers of bureaucracy in the name...
The storm blowing up in Pakistan after the May 9 violence has not broken just yet. If anything, its severity has gathered speed. Instead of...
Piecing together an accurate picture of reality is a demanding exercise, both in terms of hard work and in keeping with rigours required for...
When on May 14, 2006 – nearly 17 years ago – the Charter of Democracy was signed between Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto and Mr Muhammad Nawaz Sharif,...
Science has long discovered that heart break is not just emotional trauma. It has severe physiological manifestations also. This physiological...
Mayhem describes what Pakistan is facing on so many fronts. There is not even a single respite in sight. Take the economy, the worst mayhem in which...
A major global pronouncement on the annual global state of democracy is out. The verdict: democracy is in doldrums globally and 2022 was a...
Even though ‘Cooperation in a Fragmented World’ was this year’s theme of the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos, there is little...
As we celebrate the fact that the second phase of local government elections in Karachi and Hyderabad divisions took place, let us pause to remind...
Even though the ECP verdict on the prohibited funding case against the PTI in August 2022 took a long time coming, Pakistan has rarely seen sharper...
In the recession-hit United States in the 1990s under US president George H W Bush, ‘It’s the economy, stupid’ was the catchphrase that...
As the world gears up to celebrate another trip around the sun, there is this innate human urge to review what we experienced in the year concluded....
In a recent public opinion survey to gauge whether Pakistanis wish to stay in Pakistan or leave the country, the Pakistan Institute of Development...
Given Pakistan’s political and governance history and the charring civil-military relations, there is a sense of hope and positivity linked to the...
To celebrate the anniversary of Pakistan’s first election conducted on the basis of one-person, one-vote on December 7 in 1970, the day is...
In a TV interview a few weeks back, former prime minister Mr Imran Khan rather disdainfully said that he was not afraid if martial law was imposed:...
‘Tis the season of leaks – except there is nothing festive about it. Pakistanis have been given involuntary access to closed-door and hitherto...
By its very essence, democracy means a system of decision-making based on citizens’ choices. Democracy takes the power of decision-making away...
The National Assembly of Pakistan is the only popularly elected federal house where 272 seats are allocated to each province and the federal capital...
Former prime minister Mr Imran Khan has said that the current government should not appoint the new army chief and has demanded that the appointment...
There is nothing mundane about Pakistan’s democracy – or, as they say, never a dull moment here. For the disciplined, however, democratic...
The 75th anniversary of Pakistan’s independence brought with it a lot of avenues of introspection. How exactly did we achieve independence? What...
Former US President Trump has termed the US to be akin to a “broken, third world country,” which has become “corrupt, at a level not seen...
The UK’s Conservative Party is going through its internal electoral process of choosing Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s successor. The final...
The ECP has ruled that the PTI knowingly and wilfully received unlawful funds from a number of foreign companies and foreign nationals and has...
It is only a week or so before each general election that our political parties hurry to ‘prepare’ and issue their respective manifestos. Each...
While the PML-N’s loss in fifteen out of twenty seats in the Punjab by-election has been characterized as a humiliating defeat for the party in...
In his dissenting note on the Supreme Court short order interpreting Article 63A of the constitution, Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail invokes the...
