Trading electables
Political activities will heat up in the wake of the announcement of the national elections by the electoral watchdog. One of the ubiquitous activities in the run-up to every national…
Stories around ‘electables’
It is likely that you have seen a video of a young woman going ecstatic about the news she had just heard. Her name is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She stunned the…
Politics of electables
The battle to hunt the maximum number of electables before the next general elections has begun. All the mainstream parties have started to try and win over influential candidates from…
End of the electables?
Not ugly local politics, not dharrabandi, not thanakutcheri, not the candidate who can ride his local network of support to victory on any ticket, in any election. Parties won. N-League…
The electables
What’s an electable? Is it a commodity, a bird, migratory or of a local variety? Whatever it stands for, the likes of it are making waves in the media. It’s…
Unpacking governance dysfunction (Part – I)
Pakistan’s polycrisis – its economic volatility, political turbulence, social fragmentation, and institutional decay – has one common denominator: a breakdown of governance. Decades of elite capture, politicisation and policy drift…
Captain & captains
IN this piece, I cover the new kid on the bloc — the PTI and its captain — and an aged elephant in the room. The Bhuttos are landed elites,…
No quick fixes in Balochistan
THE deadly terrorist attack in Quetta has reignited debates surrounding the security situation in Balochistan. Predictably, hawkish voices have sought to discredit advocates for political reconciliation. This knee-jerk reaction merits…
The winds of change
SILENCE is complicity, said the Philippines Nobel laureate journalist Maria Ressa in her 2022 memoir How to Stand Up to a Dictator. Our biggest problems are the results of choices…
The second chance
A DECADE ago, in the course of election day in 2013, I, along with colleagues visited a polling station in Rawalpindi. Established in a government school, the venue was filled…
