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Rashed Rahman
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  • Charting the origins

    Charting the origins

    The idea of neutral caretaker administrations in Pakistan has a strong conceptual and empirical case but the objective situation harbours doubts

  • The state of press freedom

    The state of press freedom

    Two reports from credible platforms underline the state of press and media freedom in Pakistan today

  • Threat to secular parties

    Threat to secular parties

    How do recent terror attacks across the country impact secular parties and their politics?

  • Learning the hard way

    Learning the hard way

    The establishment has for long pitted political parties against one another. Have they learnt their lesson?

  • Political muddle

    Political muddle

    Despite its success in ousting Imran Khan’s government, the PDM coalition has found itself burdened by the messy legacy of the PTI

  • Clerics’ obstinacy

    Clerics’ obstinacy

    How and why have hardline clerics been able to defy successive governments regarding their own interests?

  • State of democracy, the past and present

    State of democracy, the past and present

    A fundamental impediment to ringing in a genuine democracy confronted Pakistan from the very beginning

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