After decades Of neglect under various dictators and their creations like PML N and MQM, education in Sindh finally improved under PPP. سندھ پر 1990ء سے اکتوبر...
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Pakistan’s urban educated class particularly those newly turned anti-establishment liberal democrats, have no idea about how constitution and...
Its so astonishing to see people discussing and arguing over the importance & benefits of 18th amendment. This discussion does not involve only...
نوٹ: سابق صدر آصف علی زرداری اور پی پی پی کے چیئرمین بلاول بھٹو زرداری نے تواتر سے یہ کہنا شروع کیا کہ 18 ویں ترمیم کو لیپٹنے کی کوشش ہورہی ہے تو اس وقت...
As Benjamin Franklin was leaving the United States Constitutional Convention where framers of the US constitution had gathered to, well, frame...
One of the funniest question asked on Facebook the other day, not by a common man living somewhere in remote village of Dera Ghazi Khan, but by a very informed...
بالآخر پاکستان کی سیاسی تاریخ میں پہلی مرتبہ عوام کی منتخب آئینی، جمہوری حکومت اپنی آئینی مدت پوری کرنے جا رہی ہے۔ جمہوریت جس کے چراغ آج دنیا بھر میں روشن ہو...
دھائیوں کا نشانہ پانچ جولائی 1977، چھ اگست 1990، پانچ نومبر 1996 اور اب 2012 کی کوئی وارد کی ھوئی تاریخ کونسی ھوتی ھے اسکا انتظار کرنا پڑیگا یا پھر موجودہ...
Does Pakistan need more provinces and if so should they be formed ethnically or administratively? These vexing questions are taxing the wits of...
What is Federalism John Kincaid, Professor at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania and director of the College’s Meyner Center for the Study of State and...
There is every reason for over a million strong Pakistani Diaspora in UK and Pakistanis wherever to celebrate their country’s 64th Independence Day with great...
The 1973 Constitution given by Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was democratic, federal and parliamentary. It had a vision of Federalism in terms of fiscal...
President Asif Ali Zardari has said that the government stands committed to ensure equal rights for minorities as enshrined in the Constitution and the UN...
The Civic Education Network Pakistan organized a learning event; Constitutional Literacy Campaign, “Scope of Constitutional Provisions and Space for...
Senator Raza Rabbani One has mostly seen political leaders falling in the eyes of public, especially in this time and age where media puts the spotlight on too...
Pakistan Peoples Party has been at the receiving end of electoral rigging and gerrymandering by establishment and Pakistan Army over many general elections...
Academia, Civil Society Organizations and youth from different parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA passed a joined resolution on April 07 in favor of...
The Federal Government has transferred five ministries, including the Ministry of Education, to the provinces under the devolution plan in the 18th Amendment...
President Asif Ali Zardari’s annual address to a joint sitting of parliament addressed the accomplishments of the current government, and called for defeating...
There are those who believe that Pakistan was envisioned as an Islamic theocracy. If one subscribes to this view, then we have actually become quite a...
Related article: Pakistan Democracy Review 2009 – by Humza Ikram JANUARY 2010 NFC Award The 7th National Finance Commission (NFC) award was signed in January ...
Our regular contributor has expressed his feelings on the recent verdict on 18th Amendment through the following cartoon.
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Source: Express Tribune The Supreme Court’s short order is somewhat enigmatic as it raises more questions than it answers. It is, however, being hailed by...
The Supreme Court’s order (on the 18th amendment) throws light on certain very important issues about the court’s recent role and function in our...
Pakistan’s supreme court has asked parliament to review a constitutional amendment that would see senior court judges appointed by a parliamentary...
Related article: 18th Amendment: The Parliament must not surrender its sovereignty to grade-22 bureaucrats in the Supreme Court The Supreme Court has ordered...
A natural disaster, largely unavoidable, has provided a glorious opportunity to all those who have been hankering to reverse Pakistan’s fragile transition from...
“Let us recognize that democratic governance is a yearning shared and voiced by people the world over. Democracy is a goal in its own right, and an...
This business of the Supreme Court taking it upon themselves to overrule the people’s elected representatives in parliament is really getting ridiculous...
The Supreme Court (SC) has extended the tenure of 32 additional judges working in the high courts of the four provinces till further orders. The eleventh hour...
Information Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mian Iftikhar Hussain said that Altaf Hussain committed treason by issuing statement in favour of martial law and he...
The existential threat comes from disowning the democratic structure, giving up on it and looking yet again for another instant messiah in face of tremendous...
Pakistan may have lost a talented fiction writer when Fatima Bhutto went into journalism. Clearly, she is adept at spinning a tale, fudging facts and re...
Objective and constructive criticism is the cornerstone of secular liberal democracies. In that regard, those who have disagree with the current Pakistani...
I got a kick out of reading the news about Justice Khalil Ramday’s comments regarding constitutional amendments petition being heard in the Supreme...
My Response to Ijazul Haq’s article published in daily News today (July 04). This is with reference to Ijazul Haq’s article “What has ‘freely’ changed?”...
Source: Daily Express, 22nd June 2010
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In the last few days, it is really refreshing to see Nawaz Sharif’s bold stance on various issues including the 18th amendment and also on the Ahmadi...
As the recession hit; the jobless rates soared to 10% and more, banks at the brink of failing, stock exchange plummeted, and economy was left paralyzed. All...
It is sometimes frustrating and at other times disappointing that the honorable judges of supreme court of Pakistan know exactly what they are supposed to do...
