Endgame or new beginning?
The Chicago summit held in May has ratified the road map which President Obama has been evolving since 2010, to convince his voters in the 2012 presidential elections that US…
Ready, unsteady, go…
The year has only just begun. There`s nearly 10 months to go before American voters get the opportunity to pick the White House tenant for the next four years. Yet…
PPP’s election strategy
The PPP’s election strategy stands on three pillars – coalition politics, development funds and manipulation of the electronic media. There are a hundred National Assembly seats between Rawalpindi and Multan.…
Gender deficit in electoral rolls
Women’s historic exclusion from the formal arena of politics as voters, candidates and as pubic representatives has been the hallmark of the political culture of this country. Despite a number…
Low voter turnout casts shadow on Egyptian charter approval
Low voter turnout in a referendum on Egypt's Islamist-backed draft constitution calls into question the credibility of the document, said analysts Sunday, shortly after unofficial results showed that the draft…
Spotlight: Will the waves created by Allama Qadri amount to anything?: Political scenario
PPP is having a bad time in the aftermath of the bye elections which it lost comprehensively to the Nawaz League. This was followed by a series of defections from…
Spotlight
"We all lie" said an honourable federal minister in a TV debate. "We lie to our voters. We lie to the Election Commission. We lie to all concerned" or words…
The year gone by
As another frantic year comes to an end, I want to know who pushed the fast-forward button. Why is it that life seems to speed up as you get older?…
Lessons learnt from Afghan polls
The Afghan elections were about as big a failure as some feared, particularly the Americans. According to Rachel Reid of Human Rights Watch: "Violence and intimidation succeeded in keeping voters…
Spotlight:
Some appeared to be running around just to retain the goodies they were already in possession of and enjoying, thanks to the political position bestowed on them by millions of…
