The author works with Punjab Lok Sujag, a research and advocacy group that has a primary interest in understanding governance and democracy.
What makes the BJP victory perplexing is the fact that it has come despite its performance on the economic front being graded from disastrous to...
900 million voters,1 million polling stations, 40 days... The world’s biggest democracy will select a new government this month. What can Pakistan...
The mere fact that the RTS failed and fell short of standards of transparency is enough fuel for the opposition’s narrative that the general...
Accusations of elected members selling their votes to the highest bidder have emerged in many recent Senate elections but not at this scale nor with...
The new election law is enacted 40 years after the earlier one. The improvement, however, is marginal, lacklustre and procedural in nature
What is wrong with the local government system in Punjab?
On a motorbike for four weeks… what an experience!
If elections are held again under the same rules and regulations, how can one expect these to be fairer and freer than the previous?
This situation is unlikely to improve unless the democratic discourse is put upside down
Imran’s chivalric do or die approach may still find buyers in his fan club but it is likely to drive away the pragmatic leaders
Election 2013 provides the Election Commission an historic opportunity to find permanent solutions to its problems and be its own Messiah
The day Musadiq Sanwal passed away I received many calls from common friends. I made some myself too. We wanted to condole with each other but most...
Punjab’s share in the vote bank of Pakistan People’s Party was a whooping three-quarter in the seminal general elections of 1970. It...
