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Dr Niaz MurtazaDawn |
The entity that birthed Pakistan also impeded its progress.
TWO political families have mainly piloted our twisted and bumpy semi-democratic ride. I covered the Bhuttos last time. Today, I turn to the...
STATES traverse the democratic path in the vehicles of political parties, which are driven by political families in our region. One must review how...
“SOCIALISM is dead; Long Live Socialism,” wrote fellow Berkeley scholar Roger Burbach in 1997, bravely predicting socialism’s rise in new forms...
REGIME gurus claim to have put us on the path of progress — except that all past regimes falsely claimed this too. Progress includes not only...
POWER is a double-edged sword. It corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. But it produces order as well. Without power, there is chaos....
CAPITALISM and socialism are the great global ideologies of our age. The word before ‘ism’ reflects the core logic running a system. So, under...
MORE than six months after one of our most blatantly rigged elections, we have barely inched forward on resolving election disputes. A recent Fafen...
THE amazing ease with which street protests in Bangladesh and earlier Sri Lanka toppled hated regimes has left many Pakistanis envious as to why we...
TRANSFORMATIVE leadership is our strong desire and an urgent need, given the doom we face due to long years of misrule. But many naïvely expect...
WE are at a familiar spot today — on the edge of a deep precipice where we land every few years during intra-elite conflicts where some elites...