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Thursday, October 24, 2024

Sarwar Bari

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An electoral history of Pakistan

After the liberation of Bangladesh, some political scientists thought that the establishment had learned a lesson. They were wrong. Since then, farce turned into tragedy repeatedly.

Is assassination a tool to kill a...

The story of Haviland Qabil seems to be a good example to start with the topic of this article. Simply the story goes like this. ‘Habil – a shepherd, offered a healthy ram as his best sacrifice.

Disaster [Mis]management – A Collective Failure

Since 1950 Pakistan has been devastated by 29 major flood disasters. The country spent billions of rupees on thousands of flood protection measures, yet losses continued to rise. The ongoing colossal calamity is a good reminder to rethink about the flood protection strategy from scratch, as it has miserably failed the nation. It is a collective failure of everyone who participated in its formulation, provided funds for and implemented it.

Electoral reforms – put the last first

Election expert questions the motivations behind the new desire for political parties to form another parliamentary committee on electoral reforms, given they had passed the Elections Act 2017, which had been approved after extensive consultations across the board, and the committee had met over 70 times beforehand.

Electronic Voting Machines: Politicians, NGOs, TV Anchors...

While the issue of EVM has been discussed endlessly on all TV talk shows and political debates, they added little value to the general populace's understanding. Much of this has been because instead of inviting experts to explain EVMs, anchors have encouraged politicians to spread baseless opinions.

Covid-19: Failure of western model of governance

Amajor lesson that seems to be emerging from the media coverage of the corona pandemic is that despite being technologically advanced, the super-rich countries...

What is reality to rigging allegations for...

Was the general election 2018 different from the previous elections or not? If not, then in what way and if yes, then to what...