One of the most significant features of the 18th Amendment was the withdrawal of the power to dissolve the National Assembly from the president.In...
The by-election results in Punjab this past Sunday have left the PML-N reeling and rudderless. In stunning contrast to the predictions of most...
A new day, a new low plummeted. The heinous murder of Priyantha Kumara by a self-righteous mob of zealots adds to the long and ignominious list of...
Apart from staggering incompetence, if there is one thing that has defined this three-year-long term of the PTI government is its relentless...
Imagine a country where a precocious adolescent, all bright-eyed and full of lofty dreams as most kids her age, is shot in the head by a terrorist....
The annual ‘Freedom in the World’ report released by Freedom House makes for dismal reading for advocates of democracy. The organisation rates...
Since ancient times, philosophers, theorists, and political scientists have pondered over the interplay between politics and morality.What...
The storming of the chambers and courtroom of the Islamabad High Court’s chief justice by lawyers this past Monday is the latest in a series of...
Imran Khan’s admission that he and his party were unprepared for the rigours of governance in 2018 would not have left anyone – except those who...
By most accounts, the gathering of mourners at Khadim Hussain Rizvi’s funeral was one of the biggest in Lahore’s history. The liberal...
This month marked 21 years since General Musharraf toppled the heavily-mandated Muslim League government led by an increasingly assertive and...
You know you have hit rock-bottom when the responses from your country’s top leadership to a most heinous crime range from victim blaming to calls...
The writer works as a development practitioner for a local consultancy.On May 10, 1933 – in a revolting incident not witnessed in Europe since the...
The writer works as a development practitioner for a local consultancy.Two years into the installation of a new government and promises of a...
Globalisation, the 2008 financial crisis, wars in the Middle East, the ensuing migration to Europe, and soaring inequality are some of the major...
The Covid-19 pandemic has shone a glaringly unflattering light on the inability of populist leaders around the world to manage this crisis. As Babar...
‘Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance’. One wonders if he were alive today, how eloquently Bernard Shaw would have...
