A case for participatory governance in G-B
By Ghulam Amin Beg The old Indian narrative on Jammu and Kashmir of a democratic dispensation, constitutionally guaranteed local autonomy
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GBLA polls 2020
by Sajjad Ahmad GILGIT-BALTISTAN will hold elections on Aug 18, 2020, for the Legislative Assembly’s 24 constituencies. The government’s five-year
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Safeguarding public interest and role of bureaucracy
By Mesum Qasmi Bureaucracy has three major roles to play: maintain social order, implement laws and policies framed by
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Pakistan’s social media rules disastrous for freedom of expression
By Michael Karanicolas Pakistan’s newly published Citizens Protection (Against Online Harm) Rules, 2020 (the Rules) pose a serious danger for free speech in that country.
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Comrade: a lament, a love letter
What does it mean to be a comrade today? What unfulfilled desire, what future promise, does it hold? By AYYAZ MALLICK
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PTM’s countrywide protest against leader’s arrest today
Manzoor Pashteen, nine others were arrested on late Monday evening in Peshawar and sent on 14-day judicial remand High
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Panelists for protection of fundamental rights, parliament’s supremacy
Speakers at HRCP seminar decry regression of democratic values, violations of fundamental rights, propose a broad-based coalition based on minimum people’s agenda
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‘GB is ruled through repressive laws, colonial mindset’
The region is missing from mainstream policy discourse on Kashmir, says Dr Nosheen Ali By Anayat Baig & Ehtesham
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Academics, activists debunk Musharraf as ‘liberal’ dictator
Herald Report As celebrities and TV anchors took to remembering General Pervez Musharraf as a military dictator whose progressive policies
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Speakers for new social contract between Pakistan and GB
State Subject Rule and Khalsa Sarkar are outdated instruments of the colonial era which are irrelevant to address today’s complex issues: Muhammad Abbas
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Ex-military dictator Musharraf handed death sentence in high treason case
Herald Report Islamabad: A special court Tuesday handed death sentence to former military dictator Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf in a
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Who is scared of student power?
By Asfand Yar The ‘Student Solidarity March’ held on November 29, has stirred the status quo and jolted the power
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Students Solidarity March: Court grants interim bail to activists
Sessions judge rejects police request for Alamgir Wazir’s physical remand, sends him to jail on judicial remand Herald Report Left-wing
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‘Azadi March’: a catalyst for democratic change or contradictory processes?
The Maulana has dared to challenge an authoritarian system, but the fate of democracy will remain in doldrums until
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by Frud Bezhan Seventeen men will contest Afghanistan’s presidential election in a race among old power brokers — ex-government officials,
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