Pakistan

Rigged or not, polls the only option for Pakistan

By Ayesha Jalal, Tufts University in Islamabad While there are allegations of it being fixed, as a constitutional exercise it is preferable…

1 year ago

Beleaguered parties and strategic voters

By Shandana Khan Mohmand, University of Sussex in Brighton While more and more of the country’s voters now live in urban areas,…

1 year ago

Electoral musical chairs makes a mockery of democracy

By Wajid Islam, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority and Hafsa Hina, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics in Peshawar After…

1 year ago

Imran casts a long shadow over polling day

By Umair Javed, Lahore University of Management Sciences in Lahore He may be banned and his party in disarray but Imran Khan…

1 year ago

Pakistan readies itself for an orchestrated election

The Pakistan Army manipulates the election process to get a friendly government in place. Pakistan, undergoing a dire economic crisis,…

1 year ago

Pakistan, where democracy wears an army uniform

By Ajay Darshan Behera, Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi The Pakistan military does not want a genuinely popular civilian political leader…

1 year ago

Expansionist China traps the debt strapped

The growing dependence of India on China is hardly a matter of comfort to our country. Hemmed in, and its…

3 years ago

Chabahar stares at irrelevance as Taliban surges ahead

The huge Chabahar Port project in Iran, meant to allow India to side-step Pakistan and take the land route to…

4 years ago

Shia Crescent and the Rise of Taliban

With India clueless and dazed, its future in Afghanistan is getting grimmer with China, Pakistan, Russia and Iran on the…

4 years ago

50 years of Bangladesh: A musical birth of a violated nation

George Harrison, Ravi Shankar and many more musicians got together to highlight the violence that Bangladesh was subjected to by…

4 years ago