Post hoc, ergo propter hoc
As inflation reaches an adjusted 38 per cent across the country, it seems Pakistan is in the worst economic state it has ever been. There is a pronounced, feverish race…
Snap elections can help arrest economic slide
The economy is dangerously slowing down. At this point, the effects of administrative measures to apply brakes on the imports are evident. The wider impact of inflation in demand destruction…
By-elections and beyond
The by-elections scheduled to be held in 20 constituencies throughout Punjab are likely to have a monumental effect on both the current political situation in the country and what may…
Elections and the courts
IT was very heartening to see the Supreme Court putting its foot down and refusing to interfere in the schedule of the second phase of KP local government election fixed by the…
G-B: rerun of 2018 general elections
The interim, unofficial results of the Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) election show a disconcerting, familiar pattern. At the time of writing these lines, these results show the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) leading with…
Fair elections?
When our last military dictator General Pervez Musharraf launched the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA), he made pretty tall claims. One of them was that under the then-new system,…
Elections 2018
Squabbling and endlessly bickering on issues not of any public importance, our parliamentarians may clamour passionately for early elections, yet not enough senators showed up for weeks to enable a…
Rise of populism in the post-Covid world
Populist sentiments seem to be resurfacing in the wake of Covid-19 as a virulent variant, Delta, spreads across many countries. Populism was a hot topic in world politics from 2017-2019…
Trump’s post-election gamble
President Trump may have green-lighted the General Services Administration to begin the transition process, but he is still far from accepting the defeat in the polls in clear, unequivocal words.…
Probing a post-Covid-19 world
WOULD the post-Covid-19 world see a more equitable socioeconomic order, with bourgeois parties forced to tend to the planet and the life it sustains? Or are we heading towards more…
