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Elections In Fata

Elections in Fata

The Joint Committee on Fata Reforms represented by 10 major political parties submitted its recommendations to the Election Commission of Palcistan (ECP) for holding fair and free elections in the…

Democracy’s missing half

The global movement for gender equality has driven change across many sectors, but political representation remains one of the most formidable challenges. Although women make up nearly half of the…

Gender parity

PAKISTAN ranks low on the Gender Gap Index in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report, 2023. On women’s political empowerment, it ranked 95th out of 146 countries, with…

Importance of local politics

Local government elections took place in 32 out of the 34 districts of Balochistan on May 29 after a delay of three and half years. Elections in two districts –…

Asserting democracy

THE impact of this government on democracy and parliamentary norms are worth exploring given the motion for the vote of no-confidence against Prime Minister Imran Khan filed by the now…

Mother of all corruption

Sugar scandal. Atta crisis. Petrol emergency. And many more such outrageous market manipulations are in the offing. All are the result of an unregulated free market economy (FME) that we…

Desperate and deadly

It is do or die. Rather do and die. After coronavirus, ‘Trump virus’ has reached Pakistan. Coronavirus does not matter. People need to get rid of the government more than…

Electoral politics

The victory of PML-N candidate Shaista Pervaiz Malik in the recent Lahore by-election was not surprising. The only surprise was that no big fuss was made about rigging and fraud.…

The mean machine

The fact that a video or some other controversial material would be released and agitated prior to whenever a hearing is scheduled in cases concerning Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Safdar…