Optimistically speaking, fair and free elections provide an oppurtunity for renewed efforts to put the country back on the track of progress, and gain respect and regard in the cluster of nations.
It’s true that Pakistanis don’t like to become a sordid hired-men for Americans or any other power who hire them in times of [...]
For the majority of people in Pakistan ‘free elections’ mean free meals, free fun, and free holidays. Whatever the lawyers, disposed judges, media, APDM and civil society says of boycotting the elections, the thing is that majority of our population, who lives in the villages and is illiterate and ill-informed is not boycotting.
Elections are the [...]
Pragma is basically an imperial decree that becomes part of the fundamental law of the land. The imperial decrees are what seem to drive the politics and affairs of this country, we so lovingly call Pakistan. For Pakistan, the funny thing is that it has multiple imperial sources apparently, but all those imperial sources converge [...]
By Fahd Mirza
To me, for some weird reasons, the name of APDM never stuck. It isn’t a name to get popularized in the slogan-happy nation of Pakistan. After the just concluded meeting of APDM, it was clear that this boat is not going to float around for much longer, and everyone is going in its [...]
Like the world is not much concerned about the 2008 elections in Pakistan, Pakistanis are also not losing much sleep over them either. After seeing the un-hindered installation of an Army chief as President, and then the way judiciary was neutralized, and media was taught a memorable lesson, it’s hard to expect any thing fair [...]
