Diluting electoral credibility
IT is distressing to see the federal government legislating by presidential decree to the total exclusion of any consultative process both within and outside parliament. The number of ordinances promulgated…
Child marriage: laws, verdicts, solutions
Pakistan turned 77 this year, yet the children harbored by the fifth most populated country continue to be failed by the state. One of the many challenges in this regard…
Kept in the dark
IF one goes by the poll dates fixed by the president of Pakistan and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governor for election to the provincial assemblies of Punjab and KP, about 74…
The arrested professor
DELULU is the solulu Origin: Gen Z fans Meaning: The latest version of ‘fake it till you make it’ or being delusional is the solution Current location: In the minds…
Imagine, just imagine…
THIS beloved country of ours never ceases to surprise us with the possibilities it offers. The imagination at work is often good enough to beat the unlikeliest fable. The clinching…
Political see-saw
WE have been witnessing a political see-saw in the country for months now. After its failed no-confidence move against Senate chairman Sadiq Sanjrani and the long march in 2019, the…
House privileges
THE BBC renders high service by telecasting live debates in the House of Commons. To this is added the exceptionally well-informed comments of its outstandingly able political correspondent, Rob Watson.…
A way forward
The Punjab Assembly has finally been dissolved and the KP Assembly is the next to go. The development has set in motion the process of elections in the two provinces. That brings a…
Hiccups won’t derail system
“‘IF suicide was not forbidden (haram) I’d go into parliament with explosives and blow it up,’ roared a charged Shehryar Afridi, a leading light of the governing PTI and the…
Role of the Speaker
IT proved to be a fateful Sunday. The deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, who was presiding over a sitting called specifically to vote on the no-confidence motion against the…
