ISLAMABADCaretaker Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Arif Nizami has said that a stable democracy and democratic institutions are vital for economic growth and peace in the country.He said the country was facing challenges like economic instability, terrorism and energy crisis and ...

karachi - Awami National Party Sindh Chief and Senator, Shahi Syed has vowed to continue struggle for democracy in the country.He said though liberal parties had been victimised in the election but the ANP could not be wiped out from the political scene. Shahi expressed these views during the ...

The unprecedented voters turnout of around 60 percent in the just concluded elections is significant from two aspects. Firstly, it indicates an unflinching faith of the people in democracy and secondly, it represents a strong snub for those who wanted to keep the masses away from the polling ...

Our outgoing rulers were very fond of asserting that democracy was the best revenge. However, they forgot that the revenge can be taken not only by their party against dictators or assassins, but also by the people against them for gross misgovernance. Everyone felt the PPP would be out of ...

“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine,” Thomas Jefferson. We live in such an ideologically, insecure country which is hell-bent on maintaining its own kind of ‘Islamic Republic,’ ...

UNITED NATIONS UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has congratulated the people and government of Pakistan on the successful conduct of the general elections, calling it "a significant step forward for democracy in the country.""By exercising their constitutional right to vote, the people of Pakistan ...

  MULTAN   A couple deciding to celebrate their marriage on the polling day reached a polling station along with their guests (baraat) to cast their votes. This incident was reported from Multan NA-151, where a Christian couple decided to celebrate their wedding on the polling day, so ...

We have a caretaker Prime Minister, who is seldom seen or heard. He was one of the nominees of the outgoing coalition government led by the PPP. So are the Chief Ministers in the provinces.Nature abhors vacuum. A few days back, we saw the Chief of Army Staff filling a little of this vacuum when he ...

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, while addressing a gathering on the eve of Youm-e-Shuhada at the GHQ in Islamabad, threw unqualified military support behind the democratic process in the country and ensured that the polls will be held on May 11. General Kayani said: ...

Malaysia is also in the election year just like Pakistan. The elections will be held there on May 9, 2013 while May 11, will be Election Day in Pakistan. There are many differences and similarities between the countries facing the same kind of events. Malaysia is a leading Muslim country while ...

May 11, 2013, is going to be a significant day in the history of Pakistan. Pakistani political parties are beating drums, playing electoral songs in an attempt to prepare ordinary Pakistanis to finally go to the polling stations to cast their votes in their favour. Manifestos are being unveiled in ...

Human history has witnessed transformation of many political paradigms, among those, the paradigm shift of monarchy to democracy has always been considered unequaled. It resulted in the birth of constitutional democracy which unleashed tremendous human energy, ensured a standard of living, and ...

LAHORE – While speaking on ‘Election Culture-Status and Imperatives’ at the Hameed Nizami Press Institute of Pakistan on Tuesday, speakers established that education was indispensable for change in electoral culture and that the Pakistani society has been dived into corruption ...

Democracy in Pakistan is yet a dream that has not been allowed to materialise in letter and in spirit. It is a ray of hope that appears on the dark political horizon just for a short time; it quickly vanishes when the dictators, thanks to the incompetence of politicians to manage the affairs of the ...

Democracy is known for its revenge. In the year 2008, it struck in two places to take its revenge. It struck in America to crush the race "barrier" and installing in the White House the first-ever non-white President in US history. Democracy also struck in Pakistan with elections in February 2008 ...

HYDERABAD/Matiari – Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has said that the judiciary is a supporter and protector of democracy and all the institutions of the state should work while remaining within their constitutional ambit.Addressing the lawyers at a reception hosted in his honour by ...

LARKANA – President Asif Zardari said that the real democracy would flourish in the country with the support of people though many forces were hatching conspiracies against it.Addressing a gathering here on the eve of 34th martyrdom anniversary of PPP patron-in-chief Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the ...

President Asif Ali Zardari Thursday said that many forces were hatching conspiracies against democracy and hoped that the real democracy would flourish in the country withthe support of people.Addressing a gathering here on the eve of 34th martyrdom anniversary of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the ...

KARACHI  - The May 11 general elections would prove to be a milestone for the continuity of democracy in the country.This was stated by the Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan here the other day. He was talking to a delegation of the Press Council of Pakistan at the Governor House here.The ...

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTUNITED NATIONS - There was no democracy at the United Nations, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was “the economic instrument of the United States”, Bolivia’s leftist–populist president Evo Morales has said. Speaking to reporters at UN ...

KARACHI - Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah on Monday hosted a dinner in honour of British Member Parliament, George Galloway at the CM House here.Earlier, a meeting was held which was also attended by Speaker Sindh Assembly, Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, Sindh Assembly Deputy Speaker Shehla Raza, ...

Though our politicians all clamor for early elections, yet no political party (except JI and PTI) has held intra party elections to choose their own party leaders at local, district, provincial, or federal level. The self-imposed chief of every party nominates individuals of his choice for local ...

On 15 April 1814, in a letter to his friend, second President of the United States, John Adams wrote, “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” Looking at our own democratic ...

Finally on Thursday, the fifth day of the long march organised by Minhajul Quran chief Dr Tahirul Qadri, the standoff between the government and Dr Qadri came to an end, much to the relief of the people of Pakistan who had been worried for fear that some untoward incident might occur leading ...

LAHORE - Leader of the opposition in the National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan says the political system faced serious threats and it was for this reason that a number of political parties held a meeting at Raiwind farmhouse of Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday. “In case of an attack on the ...

WASHINGTON  - Democracy around the world was in decline in 2012 for the seventh year in a row as the Arab Spring led nervous autocratic leaders to clamp down on any stirrings of dissent, a study said Wednesday.The annual report by the Freedom House non-governmental organisation found 90 ...

Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf says completion of five years tenure by the coalition government against various odds is a testimony of the fact that politics in Pakistan has matured and no one can harm it.Addressing a big public meeting in Chakwal on Saturday afternoon‚ he said democracy ...

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has made it clear that all parties will have to apply to it afresh to get their election symbols, and for that they will have to submit accounts and provide certificates of intra-party elections. The ECP is doing so because it is a legal obligation under ...

KARACHI – The Central Deputy Secretary Information of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Provincial Minister for Information, Sharjeel Inam Memon, has said that through democracy the better change can be brought. “To run a Madarsa and to run a country are two different things.”This ...

Recent allegations against the newly elected Morsi government in Egypt are baseless and impolite. No one can compare the present elected Egyptian government to the former Mubarak regime. Allegations are coming from official of former Mubarak regime who have accused Morsi of acting like a dictator ...