The 2018 elections as a 5GW battlefield
To understand the depth of the wounds from the Peshawar assassination of Shaheed Haroon Bilour, the Bannu attack on Akram Durrani and the horrific massacre in Mastung targeting Shaheed Sajid…
Elections in Italy
The Italian capitalist class was hoping to get a strong and stable government after the election. The election results came as political earthquake for them since both the traditional parties…
Senate elections and timely warnings
The upshot of the Senate elections was quite interestingly summed up by someone on social media as: “The success of Ms Krishna Kohli, a Dalit and once an enslaved woman…
Peace after UP elections?
India is up for a grand polarisation on communal and secular lines as all eyes are now focused mainly on the elections in Uttar Pradesh (UP). Bihar might not be…
Elections and ‘Ideology of Pakistan’
The Election Commission's returning officers, drawn from subordinate judiciary, have been taking vicarious pleasure in applying Articles 62 and 63 of the Constitution to determine the qualifications/disqualifications of candidates on…
Lessons from US elections
The day before elections in the United States, Khizr Khan, the now famous Pakistani-American father, campaigned for Hillary Clinton in the state of New Hampshire. “Will Trump’s America have room…
A ‘five-star’ general
Trying to justify his many self-granted "extensions", Musharraf did Raheel Sharif (and the Army) no favour putting him on the spot by campaigning in the media recently for his "extension".…
The general and his men
By now the name of Gen Ziaul Haq has practically become a metaphor for the darkest decade in Pakistan’s history. The patronage of militant groups may have a longer history,…
The testimony of a general
Part - III A year after Lt-Gen Majid Malik began his comfortable exile in Morocco, Gen Zia overthrew Bhutto and assumed all powers. The figurehead president, Zahoor Elahi, was eventually…
The testimony of a general
Part - I Lt-Gen Abdul Majid Malik passed away at age 96 in his native Chakwal on June 3, 2016. Among officers senior to Ziaul Haq, Malik was the one…
