Tag: Democracy

Who mandated defence to DPC? Ideas, even when perceived to be highly disruptive, pose no threat to democracy unless their holders start threatening to impose...

Respecting judicial decisions and implementing them is essential for strengthening democracy and state institutions, PML-N President Nawaz Sharif said on Saturday. In a statement,...

The participants of a national workshop about the ‘Quality of Democracy in Pakistan in 2011’ said despite the challenges, the democratic process had moves...

Shaky innards He was minding the store; the prime minister was, at Davos, doing what heads of government are supposed to do during visits abroad:...

The mess that is civil-military relations The prime minister of late has developed a penchant for first making statements critical of the military establishment and...

President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday conferred the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Award for Democracy on Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi. The president especially...

India has some too The issue of the two army chiefs, in India and Pakistan, still dominate the discussions. Chief of Army Staff V K...

All roads, it seems, lead to the apex court After a torrid discussion with someone whose analytical excellence and intellect I hold in high esteem,...

No sane mind can deny the fact that Pakistan is a multilingual, multi-ethnic and multicultural society. Democracy calls for unity but also respects the...

Not quite there yet There have been considerable gains in democracy and civil and political freedoms in Pakistan over the last four years. Pakistan can...

Votes mean something In the heyday of Taliban rule in Swat, Sufi Muhammad, the obscurant-in-chief of the TNSM, addressed a large gathering at the Grassy...

Jeevay Pakistan Jeevay Maqami-Hakoomat (JPJM) Chairman Daniyal Aziz has criticised the present form of democracy in the country in which the poor could not...

Hurtling towards the inevitable The NRO implementation case before the Supreme Court may be crawling towards its end, but not without causing immense consternation among...

It seems that Musharraf’s return has been ‘delayed’ even though he had claimed to return very soon. It is very easy for some of...

A win for democracy is a win for everyone In contrast to the assault that was mounted against the apex court when former Prime Minister...

The Sindh Assembly unanimously adopted on Wednesday a resolution supporting democracy and the prevailing leadership of PPP-led government. A similar resolution was approved by the...

The problem with the parliament The military has at its disposal all the muscle and money that it wants. The courts have at their disposal...