Local Government Crisis on January 31, 2023“Chairmainon ku insaf do (Give justice to chairmen)” was one of the slogans repeatedly chanted with full anguish in a protest organized by elected local government officials in Peshawar against the amendment of the Local Government Act, 2013. The amendment repealed among others, Section 23(A) and Section 25(A) by clipping the administrative power of the […]
Populism: Aspects and Remedies on August 1, 2022Populism is an errant political approach in which either conventional or a newly-debuted politician (populist) is brought to the political theatre by invisible forces through shortcuts. He presents himself as a messiah to resolve a country’s complex, long-standing and multi-faceted problems by giving simple solutions. Arousing chauvinistic nationalism; glorifying religious extremism; relying on authoritarianism and […]
Linguistic Identity: Challenges on July 19, 2022Bhasha Andolon was a language-based political movement of the Bengali community that started in 1948 with the principal objective of mainstreaming and promoting Bengali- the lingua franca of then East Pakistan, at a national level. Rather than conceding the democratic right of Bengalis, being the majority of the nascent religious-ideological state, the highly-bureaucratized West Pakistan […]
Educational Woes on July 9, 2022Education determines the fate of a nation. Quality education leads to prosperity, technological advancements, political maturity, economic dynamism, and adherence to constitutional norms by cultivating a civic sense in the citizenry of a polity, while education bereft of quality, innovative, and analytical abilities yields an unemployed bulk, which is politically unconscious and economically naïve. Unfortunately, […]