Post-Elections Theatre of Terror in Pakistan

Zoha Waseem Post-elec­­tions, Pak­istan has offered lit­tle respite from ter­ror­ist vio­lence and mil­i­tan­cy with­in the coun­try as is evi­dent from the on-going spate of attacks in the sum­mer of 2013. Trends can eas­i­ly be not­ed in ter­ror­ist activ­i­ty in com­par­i­son with that of last sum­mer. Balochis­tan and Khy­ber Pakhtunkhwa remain the epi­cen­tres of vio­lence; sol­diers […]

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Elections 2013: What is at stake?

Rab Nawaz Sev­er­al fac­tors make the 2013 elec­tions his­toric — the first ever trans­fer of pow­er from one civil­ian gov­ern­ment to anoth­er, an inde­pen­dent elec­tion com­mis­sion, the mas­sive pop­u­lar­i­ty of new polit­i­cal pow­ers such as Pak­istan Tehreek-e-Insaaf, the youth fac­tor, the cru­cial role of tra­di­tion­al and social media — to name a few. As the […]