Elections and the budget 2018-19
The National Assembly has passed the delimitation of constituencies' bill with 242 votes in favour and one against paving the way for the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to complete…
German elections
The September 26 general elections in Germany have produced another hung parliament. Even though the Social Democrats emerged as the single largest party in parliament, it fell well short of…
Cantonment elections
Although cantonment elections represent a small fraction of the electorate in the country, their results still help understand political trends. This election exercise is better than most surveys to feel…
Cantonment elections
The most important message coming out of the cantonment board elections last Sunday night was that you may discredit him, you can run a propaganda campaign against him, you can…
AJK elections
As expected, the PTI won the majority in the AJK Assembly elections. The Kashmiri electorate continued the tradition of electing in the party that is ruling Islamabad. The PTI is…
The TLP and elections
THE by-election in a Karachi constituency has followed the time-honoured Pakistani tradition of throwing up a controversial result accepted wholeheartedly only by the victor and none of those left behind. With the…
Elections in AJK
A fresh round of general elections is set to take place in Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK) on July 25, 2021. Historically, elections in AJK have been easy to predict…
Elections under fire
German legal philosopher Carl Schmitt’s book ‘Legality and Legitimacy’, published in 1932 as the Weimer Republic crumbled towards its end, turned out to be one of the most consequential works…
Gilgit-Baltistan: after the elections
Amidst claims and counter-claims of transparency and rigging, the general elections in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) took place in a relatively peaceful environment in all 24 constituencies of its legislative assembly. It…
GB: elections and leadership
For the sake of Pakistan, the people of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir have made tremendous sacrifices and have kept alive, with their blood, the freedom movement for their emancipation…
