Can parliament discuss electoral delimitation? on March 23, 2018The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has reportedly attempted to stop the National Assembly’s Special Committee on Delimitation from looking at delimitation, terming it an interference in the Commission’s mandate. With heated discussions taking place on the preliminary delimitation results, the Assembly had allegedly considered such a committee helpful in communicating parliamentarians’ concerns collectively to […]
Reforms in Senate polls warrant critical evaluation on March 16, 2018After much hullabaloo about their postponement, the Senate elections are finally over. Once again, Pakistan has been riveted with allegations of parties buying votes and candidates voting against their own parties, popularly referred to as ‘horse-trading’ in Pakistan. Results and reactions to them were both largely expected, but they have once again created an impetus […]