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Quite Unlike The PNA

Quite unlike the PNA

It is finally the women who have united people who had long been busy identifying the factors that separated them from one another. The so-called religious political parties have given…

It wasn’t just bad choices

October has the dubious distinction of being the month in Pakistan’s history in which the democratic order was uprooted twice. On October 8, 1958, Iskandar Mirza, Pakistan’s first president, clamped…

Fire and attraction

PEACENIKS on both sides of the Radcliffe Line are eating humble pie; the warmongers radiate with their ‘told-you-so’ glow. Journalistic neutrality has been thrown to the winds; anchors, reporters and…

Patriarchal anxiety and Aurat March

International Women’s Day, observed annually on March 8, serves as a global reminder of the historic and ongoing struggle for gender equality. Its roots trace back to the early 20th…

Opposition Alliance But For What?

Opposition alliance but for what?

Pakistan has a troubled history with democracy, often oscillating between civilian rule and military interventions. Opposition alliances, usually formed under the banner of restoring democracy, have paradoxically played a role…

The Jamaat’s journey

The Jamaat-e-Islami, which used to be a mainstream religious political party of the 1970s, has gradually faded into political obscurity due to wrong policies. Once a formidable political group with…

Carter’s centuries

JIMMY Carter’s extraordinary longevity partly accounts for his exceptional status among the US presidential pantheon. He was born when Calvin Coolidge occupied the White House, the Soviet Union was in…

Caretaker system’s future

THE national sentiment seems to be strongly opposed to the continuation of the current constitutional arrangement of appointing caretaker governments at the federal and provincial level when the legislatures are…