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The simple answer to this question is “no”. The reason for this response is also simple; Until March of this year, Pakistan has never tried the parliamentary system. Pakistan instead has tried to avoid parliamentary supremacy through almost every device known to political scientists: the so called vice regal system, military authoritarianism, presidential supremacy, and … Read more
Kashmir, also called Cashmere, is a large area on the northern border of India. Its official name is Jammu and Kashmir. Kashmir has been the center of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947. Each country claims Kashmir as part of its territory. The capitals of Kashmir, by traditional use, are Srinagar in the … Read more
The fiftieth anniversary of Pakistan’s independence falls in a period of perhaps the most far reaching changes in the world order. The relatively simple diplomatic configuration of the Cold War era has given place to a complex interplay of a great many forces that have made their appearance at the regional and global level. Economic … Read more
For the last 50 years, year after year, we have been celebrating Pakistan’s anniversary of independence as mostly a festive occasion. Jubilation as an act of pure rejoicing without much reflection falls under the category of what Muhammad Iqbal warned us about. “Give up imitating the nightingale and the peacock”, he said, “because the nightingale … Read more
HISTORY is fickle. A human contrivance, it draws its importance from the mortal human beings who want so much to understand the nature of their existence, their purposes in a span of limited time, and their connections with a buried past and a never realized future. History is meaningless in the absence of human industry, … Read more
“A man is known by his past” is a saying. This proverb is very in the case of nations. A country’s present and the dreams of its food for thought. If it was a glorious, it inspires them to work for the future are all inspired by its past. A nation’s past affords the people … Read more
Our democracy is based on the British model, namely parliamentary system of the Westminster type. General elections are held; the leader … Read more
“Fundamentalism” is a short-hand word for born again Christians Protestant which evokes literal truth of the Bible. This word was coined by media pundits to represent the movement launched by United States Protestants in the early twentieth century. As a matter of fact, there exists no such parallel in Arabic to represent. Muslims fanatically devoted … Read more
There can nothing be so distant that one cannot reach it eventually or so hidden that one cannot discover, what really required, for such achievements is efforts and determinations to reach one’s goal. We, in the figure of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, have a solid example of a strong determine and intense efforts to carve … Read more
Looking back into the recent history of the sub continent one finds that last time the region witnessed the kind of hectic diplomatic moves in the capitals of India and Pakistan in the wake of the non-going civil unrest in Jammu and Kashmir. Those were the days that followed Yahya Khan’s clampdown on the uprising … Read more