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IN an unprecedented move, the National Assembly passed the Contempt of Majlis-i-Shoora (Parliament) Bill, 2023, on May 15. The bill will, however,...
THE ongoing seventh population census in Pakistan is extraordinary in many respects. It is the first census which is taking place after the shortest...
https://arab.news/6uuz9 The debate in Pakistan was raging even before Pakistan’s Foreign Office confirmed that Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will himself...
DURING the past 50 years, the 1973 Constitution of Pakistan has been amended 23 times — an amendment every two years on average. This is no surprise...
https://arab.news/6y5rn Pakistan is in the middle of an unprecedented crisis over relations between the judiciary and the executive. Strains and...
PAKISTAN’S political crisis is deepening with every passing day. The fact that the Punjab Assembly election that was scheduled for April 30 has been...
https://arab.news/9n8r5 This is election year in Pakistan. The dates for the election of provincial assemblies in the two provinces – Punjab and...
IF one goes by the poll dates fixed by the president of Pakistan and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governor for election to the provincial assemblies of...
https://arab.news/vwzdb Pakistan’s constitution requires that the election of a national or provincial assembly must be held within 90 days if it...
PAKISTAN has encountered many difficulties in the past, including a near meltdown of its economy in 1968; a real or engineered breakdown of the...
https://arab.news/pfqw6 Most democratic countries, whether based on parliamentary or presidential systems, stand on three distinct pillars of the...
PAKISTAN has seen several extreme levels of confrontation between political actors in its 75 years of existence. A mammoth people’s movement had...
PAKISTAN has never experienced a staggered general election with polls to one or more provincial assemblies taking place months apart from polls to...
THE first major test of the current Election Commission, in fact the entire nation, is less than 90 days away. With the dissolution of the provincial...
EVEN by Pakistani standards, where there is never a dull moment in politics and parliament, 2022 was an extraordinarily tumultuous year. Our 15...
WITH each passing day, the state of animosity between the PTI, along with the two provincial governments it controls, and the federal government, that...
https://arab.news/5jv3r Pakistan is one of the youngest countries of the world with a median age of around 22 years. It is the 36th youngest...
FORMER prime minister and PTI chairman Imran Khan is relentlessly continuing his campaign, in one way or the other, to push Prime Minister Shehbaz...
CONTRARY to the parliamentary calendar of the legislature, the Punjab provincial assembly has been continuously in session for the last seven months....
‘TOSHAKHANA’ — the local definition of the state treasury where gifts received by state officials are deposited — was not a very familiar term...