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MOST critiques of the 26th Constitutional Amendment focus on its impact on judicial independence. Thankfully, some clauses related to the supposed...
IN the national security perspective on Pakistan, the country is besieged by hostile forces seeking to undermine the security apparatus and/or alter...
AN effort to rush through a constitutional amendment was barely kept at bay, but statements from the ruling regime indicate that another attempt is...
IN comparison to other multiethnic/multicultural countries in Asia, like India and Malaysia, Pakistan is a bit of an anomaly in that the largest...
PAKISTAN is a one-sport nation, and has been for the better part of five decades. Given its sheer population, underachievement across all other sports...
THE modern state differs from its earlier predecessors in that it seeks to regulate and control all aspects of the society it lays claim to. Whether...
DEPENDING on who delivers it, eulogies of Pakistan’s democracy tend to focus on a short-lived period of about a decade (or a decade and a half)...
IN a recent piece published in the Journal of Democracy, scholars Adeel Malik and Maya Tudor provide an overview of why the Pakistani state is losing...
THE recently passed budget reveals three aspects about the present ruling regime. The first one is the external constraint of getting an IMF deal. It...
WHAT compels a mob to burn someone to death? What explains such amplified levels of anger that an accusation against some person from a marginalised...
RESULTS of the Indian general election from this past week took most observers by surprise. A comfortable return to power for the BJP was the dominant...
LAST week, the Punjab Assembly hastily passed a defamation bill, despite grave concerns raised by journalist unions and rights bodies, as well as...
The current hybrid regime is incapable of undercutting an entrenched, unproductive elite.
ANALYSES of the ongoing Indian election mostly focus on the scale of the BJP’s expected victory rather than the identity of the winner. The ruling...
SLOWLY but surely, the signs of a global political and cultural realignment are becoming apparent. Several commentators trace the origins of this...
THE letter written by six judges of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) detailing interference in judicial work by intelligence agencies is an important...
WHILE service delivery in Pakistan has rarely been carried out with the explicit intention of pro-poor redistribution, no domain exemplifies this...
IN normal circumstances, a party leading the coalition at the centre and possessing a majority in the largest province of the country would not invite...
IT is pointless to pontificate on most of the voting numbers from this election, given the large discrepancies being reported. Make-believe Form-47s...
RECENT conversations about the upcoming election with university students reflect various degrees of disillusionment and despondency. For many, voting...
THE Supreme Court’s decision stripping PTI of its electoral symbol casts another shadow on an already compromised pre-election phase. It undermines...