The more things change…The more things change the more they stay the same. That is perhaps what is happening right now in Pakistan. Imran Khan,an achiever, a global celebrity having star power is in the driving seat. Listen...
PTI’s false dawnA largely controlled media would have us believe that the elections were about taking down corruption and urban middle class aspirations. Apparently this is why Imran Khan won. Did he really win in a...
Flawed political systemSir: Corruption has been a thorn in Pakistan’s side for as long as I can remember, and even though every time a new political party comes to power they promise to tackle this huge problem, none have m...
Encouraging first stepSir: Imran Khan, former skipper of the Pakistan cricket team, has taken his party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), to victory, and is now set to take over as the next Prime Minister of Pakistan. I...
Voter turnoutSir: On the one hand, it is heartening that many people, particularly the youth and women, came out and exercised their right to vote for the first time, in the recent general elections. On the other,...
Flushing out MuslimsSir: Since 2010, India has been enumerating the population in its Assam state to identify illegally-residing Bangladeshis, Afghanis and Pakistanis. Now, Registrar General of India has announced that h...
PTI wins KarachiSir: PTI has won more than expected national and provincial assembly seats from Karachi, because citizens of this metropolitan city have been betrayed too often by the two major political players prev...
Quality enhancement and healthcare standardsHealthcare standards are advocated as an important means of improving clinical practice and organisational performance. The Punjab Healthcare Commission (PHC) has utilised an open, transparent and inc...
Religious parties in South Asian electoral politicsThe recent elections in Pakistan — in which the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and it’s MMA alliance had a very poor showing — have made as clear as day that the homogeneous culture advocated by this politico-r...
Political expediency in the name of democracyAlthough this was not the first time that Pakistanis saw sham elections where one party was favoured by the deep state, thanks to social media and coverage by international journalistic media, the peo...