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…
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…
Signposts to 2021
A year that begins with a huddle of the leaders of opposition parties to redesign their strategy at a critical moment in their campaign to overthrow the government of Prime…
Sham elections
Notwithstanding the fact that as per UN resolutions the question of accession of Kashmir to either Pakistan or India is required to be resolved through a UN sponsored plebiscite, the…
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…
Saving the elections
The country collectively heaved a sigh of relief when the Supreme Court (SC) suspended the Lahore High Court's (LHC's) judgement asking the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to rectify and…
A tale of three elections
THE decade is coughing its last, it seems in a particularly glum mood. Protests rage across India as Modi’s republic tries to excise citizenship rights from Muslims. Wars continue to…
Likud and the elections
Israelis are getting ready to head to the polls for the second time in 2019. Israel’s last national elections were five months ago in April, ending in a razor-tight finish…
Spain seeks post-Brexit leverage on Gibraltar
Madrid's last-ditch threat to derail a hard-negotiated Brexit deal over Gibraltar has left some wondering how the tiny rocky British overseas territory came to play such a crucial role. The…
