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The Illusion of the ‘Change’
Revolution has been the talk of the town with regular slogans that a Tsunami is going to sweep the country in the coming years. The general election is around the corner and the political parties are...
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American Elections and Pakistan
Jamsheed Marker, Pakistan’s one time ambassador to the US records in his memoirs that General Zia-ul-Haq, once made a very apt observation about the impact of the American system of elections on...
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From 2D to 3D- The Battle for Lahore
With the next general elections due shortly, we will witness the most lethal and sanguinary of all political battles in Lahore. Lahore- A bastion of PML-N, challenged by PTI, has now become the...
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New Chinese Leadership and its Foreign Policy
We in Pakistan claim China as our ‘all weather’ friend but ask anybody in the streets of Islamabad, Lahore or Karachi, who rules this friendly country and you’ll turn up a blank. Even the media is only...
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Where are Fair Elections Needed?
The ongoing voter verification process in Karachi was supposed to end by Feb.11th 2013, but by the given date 0.7 million voters in all the districts have not been verified yet. The process started on...
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What Goes Around Comes Around
MQM (the biggest stakeholder of Karachi), PPP (the biggest stakeholder of Sindh), and ANP (the smallest stakeholder in Karachi) have been facing a string of deadly attacks following explicit threats...
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My New Right- To Vote
It’s quite a news that voting in Pakistan is now a religious right. I don’t much know about the nuances of Shariah, hence I would refrain from commenting over it. However, I’d still like express my...
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Election Campaigns Or Verbal Abuse?
All we see these days in the name of election campaigning is plethora of mud-slinging taunts and amusing songs by all electoral parties. What is even astonishing is the idea behind their campaigning,...
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Our Politics: Rural and Urban
Unsurprisingly, the people of Pakistan are looking for change through ballets, the kind of change which can bring peace and prosperity in their lives; which can provide an equal system of education in...
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Why Vote for PPP and Sassi Palejo?
Sassi has emerged to be a liberal politician belonging to PPP, contesting from Thatta PS-85 constituency, whose moderate approach and particular activism for human and women’s rights has earned her...
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Of Hopes and Disappointments
The day started like one important festival in the country, 18 crore people have never been seen such excited and delighted. This is the first time country and its people showed such enthusiasm for the...
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Did PTI Deliver a ‘New Pakistan’?
Let’s begin by juxtaposing the pre and post-election political scenarios of Pakistan with an aim to weigh the after effects of the debut entry of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) as a major...
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Why are Government bodies such Pain?
More than 10 years back I went to NADRA office for my CNIC, it was my first ever visit and experience of NADRA and even at that time too (before going there) I heard lots of complaints how disorganized...
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Iran’s Presidential Race Begins
Iran’s Interior Ministry has issued the Approved Official List of eight Candidates for upcoming Presidential Election to be held on June 14. Sitting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is out of race being...
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Can PM Nawaz take the bull by horns?
Pakistan on June 5, 2013 emerged triumphant in adding a new chapter to its democratic and parliamentary history, as the day marked the culmination of the process of transition of power from one...
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Hassan Rowhani, The New President of Iran
Hassan Rowhani, 64, a moderate, was declared the outright winner with 50.68 percent of votes cast in Iran’s Presidential polls held on June 14. He singularly won against the five conservative...
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