Dr Ejaz Hussain

During my five years in Germany I learnt and realised that the nation has an amazing belief in the value of hard work, essence of democracy, efficacy of conflict resolution mechanism, advantages of economic cooperation and the beauty of cultural exchanges. From Hamburg to Heidelberg, physical and infrastructural wonders make one literally wonder whether wars […]

One of the concerns raised during the recent show of agitation politics led by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) relates to the phenomenon and practice of bari lena (coming to power by turns) on the part of the PPP and PML-N. This urges one to ask whether the said political parties […]

Everybody I have talked to about the political intention, verbosity and action of contemporary political parties and actors in Pakistan seemed to have been boggled on account of the ambiguous, confusing and apparently irrational (dis)course of political activism by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT). This confusion is rightly so since such […]

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) recent electoral victory has raised certain questions about the party’s ideological makeup, organisational structure, financial sources and its policy and approach towards India’s minorities, especially the Muslims. Such themes are identified and addressed by Muhammad Mujeeb Afzal, who teaches (Indian) politics and international relations at Quaid-e-Azam University, in his book […]

The ongoing sit-ins in front of parliament by enthusiasts of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) and the way their leaders and the government ultimately rushed to GHQ to settle ‘issues’ have generated debate in the media, if not academia, about the state of relations between the civilians, i.e. parliamentarians, and the […]

The nation states system is generally assumed to be the (by)product of the French Revolution whereby the praetorians-cum-revolutionaries questioned, challenged, physically confronted and replaced the prevalent feudal, clerical and religious order with a comparatively improved understating of human will, scriptures, agrarian relations and world politics. The old denominations of empires with their royal shenanigans started […]