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G-B: rerun of 2018 general elections

The interim, unofficial results of the Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) election show a disconcerting, familiar pattern. At the time of writing these lines, these results show the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) leading with…

Halfway To The 2018 General Election

Halfway to the 2018 general election

The writer is an analyst and commentator. Tomorrow will mark the midway point since the 2013 general election. A lot has happened in the two and a half years that…

Until A General Election

Until a general election

Not everyone around here is too happy with the election tribunal verdicts in favour of the PTI. Bored by the dharna and sent into dizzying circles by Imran Khan’s about-turns,…

Economic Decisions Ahead Of General Election

Economic decisions ahead of general election

A lot has been said and written about the state of the economy in the last few years. Independent economists and domestic and international professional organisations like the State Bank…

Elections: by- and general

The by-polls on 11 National Assembly and 24 provincial Assembly seats on October 14, 2018 were being seen as a referendum on the PTI-led coalition government's performance in its first…

Election bells tolling

Pakistan is transiting through a critical phase of its chequered history at the conclusion of which it will be determined whether it is to function in conformity with the strictures…

Elections on the cards?

President Arif Alvi has finally announced April 30 as the date for general elections in Punjab. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had earlier asked the president to choose any…

The utopia of elections

Pakistan is facing a three-pronged attack of political instability, economic meltdown and renewed terror insurgency in an election year. This is proving to be a lethal cocktail. All three streams…

When Imran wins the election

Fast forward to October, or November – or whenever the government calls the general election – and, ceteris paribus, behold the spectacle of PTI’s (Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf’s) tsunami delivering…

Time for an election

The polycrisis in Pakistan rages on. Urgent questions agitate the condition of the Pakistani. A sovereign default may not be imminent, but an existential economic crisis has raged for months,…