Tag: Democracy

A hostage parliament benefits none In a civilised country, parliament is the agreed forum to formulate national policies through deliberation and consensus. Any attempt to...

Tony Montana paid the price for having morals, however deranged. El Jefe Zardari will also pay for his good deeds It is the year 2008....

Chairman Sindh National Front, Nawab Mumtaz Ali Bhutto, has said that history is witness to the fact that people prefer a clean and effective...

Who’s the basket case now? The debacle of Dhaka is regarded as a national tragedy in the history of Pakistan whereas the people of Bangladesh...

The leadership of Pakistan’s political parties is being passed on like sceptres from father to son like in a monarchy, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman...

The government and the military stand apart When the president left the country amid wild speculation regarding the state of his physical and mental health,...

Thus spake Mansoor, again… Mansoor Ijaz’s claim regarding the alleged memo was taken extremely seriously by the establishment, opposition parties and the Supreme Court. The...

It’s the peoples’ system and the people shall fix it Who says Pakistan’s political leadership wants democracy? Review the last week and give me a...

We always talk about democracy but as it happens we are not a nation which can even understand the meaning of democracy. It is...

Within defined limits The people of Pakistan have been denied some of the fundamental rights in the past on account of collusion between the military...

Spiralling downwards One afternoon while sitting on the lawns of a friend’s house near the Himalayan foothills of Islamabad, there was a rustling in the...

It’s not just the politicians… India is the only country in South Asia where democracy has survived in its classical form. It got disfigured in...

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Friday said the parliamentary system had gained strength in the last four years and dismissed the impression that...

Autonomy for the commission The mere occurrence of elections, we are tutored, does not imply the presence of democracy. There is more to democracy than...

Tunisia entered a new era of democracy Tuesday with the inaugural session of its democratically elected constituent assembly, 10 months after a popular uprising...

Troubled, to say the least Harmonious civil-military interaction holds the key to political stability in Pakistan. The civilian government has always found it difficult to...