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https://arab.news/yrkdc All Pakistani media has been awash with the coverage of local political developments and court battles involving political...
RESERVED seats for women and non-Muslims in our legislatures have been a long-standing feature of Pakistan’s political system, but they had never...
SUCCESSIVE governments and parliaments in Pakistan have appeared obsessed with constitutional amendments related to the judiciary, especially the...
THIS is not the first time that a package of multiple constitutional amendments is being contemplated. The package of amendments under the umbrella of...
https://arab.news/mwakj The conflict between the executive and judicial branches of governments is a matter of routine in democracies across the...
August was an extraordinarily bloody month in Pakistan, indicating a precarious internal security situation. On Aug 23, a convoy of policemen...
IN stark contrast to the controversies emanating from the general elections in February, the allocation of reserved seats to political parties in the...
https://arab.news/wvjwd Pakistan doesn’t enjoy an enviable status in international rankings on the treatment of women and minorities. For example,...
ALTHOUGH an intense public debate had been going on about the contents and quality of the recently passed federal budget, there has not been much...
ON May 6, a three-member bench of the Supreme Court suspended the order of the Peshawar High Court which had denied 77 reserved seats to the Sunni...
HARDLY any election in Pakistan has been free of controversy. This includes Senate elections. The recent presidential election was a rare exception....
https://arab.news/yyxf2 Less than a month after Shehbaz Sharif was sworn in as the 24th Prime Minister of Pakistan, he received a letter from US...
NEARLY two months after polling day, there seems to be no sign that the controversy raging over the integrity of general election 2024 will subside...
THE national sentiment seems to be strongly opposed to the continuation of the current constitutional arrangement of appointing caretaker governments...
AT the centre of the raging controversy over the Feb 8 election results are two forms prescribed in Election Rules, 2017: Form-45 is the Result of the...
ELECTIONS results are generally a contentious affair in Pakistan. Although the first general election in 1970 is considered to have been relatively...
NOW that the final list of contesting candidates has been released by the Election Commission of Pakistan, it has emerged that an unprecedented number...
https://arab.news/p87pe Issues are generally of secondary importance in Pakistani elections which are usually dominated by debate around...
SINCE PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif returned to Pakistan on Oct 21, the process of dispensing justice to him in the plethora of cases he became entangled...
THE promised poll of Feb 8 is two months away. It is around this time that the collection and spending of funds by election candidates and political...