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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

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…

India’s state elections: a new beginning?

The recent elections in five Indian states – Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Telangana, and Mizoram – have somewhat paused the Hindutva tide for the first time since Prime Minister Modi…

Our Post-poll Blues

Our post-poll blues

An Imran wave – not a high tide, though – has risen from the general elections held on Wednesday and, finally, the old warrior is set to realise his dream…