Dr Ejaz Hussain

  On May 10, the Dawn Leaks controversy came to an end when the DG-ISPR, Major General Asif Ghafoor, while briefing the media, said, “our press release wasn’t against any specific individual or institution. The tweet was posted against incomplete recommendations. It, unfortunately, pitted the army and civilian government against each other which should have […]

Politics, almost everywhere, is a tough and nerve testing game to play with. However, the irony is most of Pakistani politicians apparently take it easy. They believe in self-righteousness and often indulge in self-glorifications through ‘otherisation’ of the other stakeholders involved in the game. Imran Khan, the leader of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf, has consistently demonstrated such […]

Civil-military relations in Pakistan have always been a hot topic for general discussion and, in cases, academic inquiry. It is a sad fact the majority of the people, especially our televangelists know little about the subject theoretically and empirically. Even the local scholarship on the subject is mostly polemical and biased to either side of […]

Mohsin Ali, who topped the BA examination in 2012 as a private candidate, surprised almost everyone. Mohsin’s hallmark was commendable. The education message got a wider audience on account of massive media coverage he received. It is quite pleasing when such bright youth occasionally remind the socioeconomically deprived people of Pakistan, in general, and those […]

  The Supreme Court has given its long awaited ruling in the Panama Papers case yesterday. The five-member bench passed a 3-2 verdict calling for the establishment of a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to probe those tricky and tough questions that the Apex court found hard to address after lengthy deliberations lasting half a year. […]

Balochistan has been in limelight for a variety of reasons. On the one hand, the province has experienced five insurgencies and consequent paramilitary operations and, on the other, it has lately received extraordinary official attention in context of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Though the province faces multifaceted problems such as illiteracy, poverty, and lack […]

Whenever I would read a text that suggested Pakistani politicians were incompetent, corrupt and short-sighted, I tended to disregard it considering such a perspective to be part of a conspiracy of extra-parliamentary forces against our noble and visionary politicians and democratic political parties. However, my doctoral research has dawned on me the lingering dilemma of […]

Mohammad bin Qasim’s conquest of Sindh often finds its way into school and college textbooks, which talk at length about its impact on the spread of Islam across South Asia. It, thus, seemed natural to demand a separate country in the name of Islam in 1947. Soon after gaining independence, Pakistan became Islamic with the […]

Discussing religion and politics has become a part of our culture whenever Pakistanis find an opportunity. Ironically, most of the participants either lack an academic understating of the subject or possess ad hoc information coming from multiple sources such as tradition, social norms, and nowadays, (social) media. The majority believes whatever they know about. For […]

India, Pakistan’s next door neighbour, can rightly take pride in being an electoral democracy where relatively free and fair elections are held quite regularly though with the exception of the emergency years of Indira Gandhi. The last general elections in India were held in 2014 in which the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) outperformed the […]