Elections not entertainments
American jurist Brandeis once wrote that “sunlight is the best of disinfectants”. Both sunlight and disinfectant could be used for our bar elections. All the cycles we witness are the…
Corporate board elections
In July 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) amended the Code of Corporate Governance through S.R.O. 906(I)/2023, introducing a new regulation (7A) that mandates separate, category-wise voting…
Body formed to outline guidelines for student union elections
Vice Chancellor Forum (VCF) - a congregation of public sector varsities’ VCs - on Wednesday green-lit the constitution of a committee to prepare a code of conduct for holding student…
Indian elections
THE Islamophobic rhetoric being employed by Narendra Modi for this election campaign has become shrill. Pakistan has nearly always been an electoral issue in India. However, this time, it is…
Elections and complications
AFTER a nail-biting race, the Turkish election appears to be headed towards a run-off poll, with neither candidate able to secure 50 per cent of the vote. The electoral rules…
Elections within 90 days
THERE is a real lack of focus and clarity in our national purpose today. The unique consensus on the constitutional requirement of elections within 90 days has, instead, been digressed…
Elections, inevitable?
What next, is the question on everyone’s minds now that Imran Khan has crossed the Rubicon. Despite the reservations of those around him, as well as the scepticism of those…
Elections or selection?
‘THE more the things change, the more they stay the same.’ That truism can be applied to Pakistan’s power politics. The same old game that we have witnessed many times…
Elections and public scepticism
LESS than a month remains for the five-year term of the present National Assembly and two provincial assemblies to end, after which elections have to be held within 60 or…
Staggered elections
Pakistan has never experienced a staggered general election with polls to one or more provincial assemblies taking place months apart from polls to the National Assembly and other provincial assemblies.…
