Analysis of political institutions, democratic governance, elections, public policy, political movements, state power, and domestic developments with regional or international significance.
A young person can try to study hard and obtain a degree, go looking for work and obey the rules and still have no prospects in the future. This frustration has been emerging in anti-government protests all over Europe and in India. These demonstrations are not all a single movement and Gen Z is not…
Emergency powers may be constitutional in form. Whether they are proportionate, time-limited and reversible will decide whether they are accepted as security policy or read as political exclusion. Key points What happened The federal government imposed the measures after President Zardari approved the cabinet’s recommendation, under Article 232, which provides for an emergency, and Article…
The Baloch National Question and Pakistan’s Digital Media Narrative Balochistan is contested twice: first as a political territory, and then as a story. For the Pakistani state, the conflict is commonly framed through sovereignty, security and the threat of externally supported militancy. For Baloch activists, it is framed through political exclusion, enforced disappearance, economic injustice…