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Dr Niaz Murtaza

Dr Niaz Murtaza

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Shaky foundations

Shaky foundations

The entity that birthed Pakistan also impeded its progress.

21.01.2025 100

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Dr Niaz Murtaza

House of Sharifs

TWO political families have mainly piloted our twisted and bumpy semi-democratic ride. I covered the Bhuttos last time. Today, I turn to the...

24.12.2024 20

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Dr Niaz Murtaza

Enigmatic Bhuttos

STATES traverse the democratic path in the vehicles of political parties, which are driven by political families in our region. One must review how...

10.12.2024 4

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Future socialisms

“SOCIALISM is dead; Long Live Socialism,” wrote fellow Berkeley scholar Roger Burbach in 1997, bravely predicting socialism’s rise in new forms...

26.11.2024 20

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Economic pipe dream

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...

12.11.2024 30

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Imbalance of power

POWER is a double-edged sword. It corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. But it produces order as well. Without power, there is chaos....

29.10.2024 5

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Perverse third way

CAPITALISM and socialism are the great global ideologies of our age. The word before ‘ism’ reflects the core logic running a system. So, under...

17.09.2024 4

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Election imbroglio

MORE than six months after one of our most blatantly rigged elections, we have barely inched forward on resolving election disputes. A recent Fafen...

03.09.2024 3

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Street protests

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...

20.08.2024 20

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New leadership?

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...

06.08.2024 2

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On the edge, again

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...

23.07.2024 4

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Dr Niaz Murtaza