By Shandana Khan Mohmand, University of Sussex in Brighton While more and more of the country’s voters now live in urban areas,…
By Wajid Islam, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority and Hafsa Hina, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics in Peshawar After…
By Umair Javed, Lahore University of Management Sciences in Lahore He may be banned and his party in disarray but Imran Khan…
The Pakistan Army manipulates the election process to get a friendly government in place. Pakistan, undergoing a dire economic crisis,…
By Ajay Darshan Behera, Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi The Pakistan military does not want a genuinely popular civilian political leader…
By Sayeed Al-Zaman, Jahangirnagar University in Dhaka As Bangladesh preps for its election, social media is overflowing with information – and being…
By Sreeradha Datta, Jindal Global University in Sonipat, India Pragmatism and self-interest influence the Indian attitude while the US sees the Bangladesh…
By Ali Riaz, Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois, United States With the distinction between the state, government and party obliterated, Bangladesh…
Democracy is in peril in Bangladesh with elections widely perceived as flawed. Combined with economic woes and social unrest, the…
Nepotism, the creation of large circles of the family clan and giving them a free hand in accumulating wealth at…