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General elections in Pakistan are round the corner. Politicians and political parties are crying themselves hoarse promising change, an improved economic situation for the people, freedom from debt and slavery…
General elections in Pakistan are round the corner. Politicians and political parties are crying themselves hoarse promising change, an improved economic situation for the people, freedom from debt and slavery…
Apologists may downplay it, but the fact is that power is the core attribute of a state, defining its position in international politics by giving it the leverage to influence…
'We never know the worth of water till the well is dry,' so goes an old saying. These days, the saying can be rephrased to read as, 'we never know…
Part of being a concerned citizen is to be well informed and, as I belong to the 18-35 age demographic that is going to cast its vote for the first…
A Very large number of Pakistanis are illiterate and unskilled. If literate they are barely so, and if skilled, most have poor skills. Given the demographics of a young nation,…
The deliberate hash of local government to reflect the diverse demographics of the ruling coalition, the PPP in the rural areas and the MQM in the urban areas of Sindh,…
The killing of MQM MPA Manzar Imam last week is the latest sign of the increasing overlap between sectarian violence and politics. The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the…
Yes, the Democratic Party won the US presidential election last week, but as much as the billions of dollars the campaign cost, it was the demographics that won it for…
Like many other important subjects in Pakistan, voting demographics and electoral patterns have rarely, if ever, been documented and researched. Apart from a few scattered accounts from the 1990s, and…