It’s all fun and games

Although the five party coalition government in Balochistan headed by Dr. Abdul Malik Baloch does not feel threatened by opposition parties, it has been facing constant pulls and pressures from its ...

Is Nawaz doomed to repeat history?

The People’s Primary Healthcare Initiative has drawn criticism from within and outside party ranks

Emperor ascended the throne with old recipes of nirvana, ‘Tame the Generals’! But unimagined challenges may be thrown up by his new tormentors: TTP, media, PTI, and civil society. Nawaz cannot ...

The sitting provincial governments are using all means to control local bodies’ polls as they are unwilling to share power

There is one rule of tweeting well: you have 140 characters, and it is your job to make them count. Twitter is a bit more complicated than just technical wordplay; it just as much requires one to ...

2014 will be a crucial year

On the evening of 17th November, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar,at the tail end of a briefing on the grave security situation in Rawalpindi, announced that the government is pursuing a case of ...

How many days for change now, in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa?

The unusual story of Jamshed Dasti, both reviled and loved

M. P. Bhandara’s son Isphanyar takes the family legacy forward

Will Aseefa overshadow her brother Bilawal and lead PPP?

The inexperienced Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf gets to a hobbled start in Khyber Pakhtunkwa, drawing criticism for its choice of cabinet members and initial policy moves

The PTI needs to institute a culture of respect for other voters and to realign expectations with a view to removing its ‘now or never’ mentality

In Pakistan, it is customary for losers to cry foul but it does not obviate the need for electronic voting to bring transparency

Imran Khan has wowed the restive province but quelling a row over the CM’s office is merely the beginning of huge challenges that await his party

Unheralded PTI rattles the MQM’s smug enterprise with both the power of vote and demonstration of street steeliness

With political parties trying to woo voters what would really be interesting is to see how much of a difference the young voters can make?

A lot is at stake as the ECP gets ready to right the electoral wrongs in Pakistan’s biggest city