No numbers game
Some perplexing challenges await the incoming government. It’ll need every ounce of patience, every penny’s worth of wisdom scrapped from past experience to tackle things. For one, the system that…
We know the answers, but will they matter?
The elections are over. Some parties have lost and some have won. However, there were many irregularities: significant institutions failed to ensure an election the people deserved. The margin of…
Pakistan and leadership transition in China
Since the 1990s, China's top leaders serve a maximum of two five-year terms. With the last batch of leaders having reached the end of their second term last year, there…
Changing trends
Political parties differ in a variety of ways, eg in their ideology, their leadership’s socio-economic background and their national or ethnic focus. The types of parties representing a region reflect…
Let the games begin
A Complicated election has given us a simple outcome. With a single party in charge of things, perhaps one can hope for some stability in the government. And with a…
Invisibility of mothers
As a new government enters the corridors of power in Sindh it will find itself empowered with an innovative and sensible document that lays down the gender guidelines for official…
A patient people’s fury
Gujarat is paying American PR firm, APCO Worldwide, millions of dollars to build and promote Brand Narendra Modi for nothing. It should really be writing those cheques in the name…
Improvement in ties?
Much has already been made of Nawaz Sharif’s overtures to India during his election campaign. The Indian high commissioner last week called on Sharif at Raiwind to discuss ways in…
Why not land reforms?
Some political parties are promising to create a new or naya Pakistan, others are promising to go back to the Pakistan that had originally been dreamt of. But all are…
The magic of commitment
First, full disclosure: I am a recent member of the PTI and a long time believer that Imran Khan offers not just the best hope, but the only hope, for…
