In its 66 years of existence, Pakistan has been far from democracy and nowhere near a beacon of Islam.

Bilal Ahmed argues that the discourse surrounding democracy in Pakistan is flawed, and that its liberal republican articulations will come to provoke additional mobilization in future years.

No state can tolerate a challenge to its monopoly of power from within; in other words, a state within a state is a contradiction in terms of state sovereignty 

There is no denying that the erstwhile modernist Pakistani leadership tried to make Pakistan both democratic and Islamic. However, no constitutional formula could find the proper balance.

By Masood Hasan

The national election in Pakistan looks like a game of polarisation, but if democracy is meant to provide some relief and prosperity, all political parties have flopped, bottom up. The field is now wide open, and anything can happen — including a hung parliament.

Thank God I am many things but not a political pundit. That species grows on trees and bushes in present-day Pakistan. Another election commences – and as some cynics put it, and so is more heartbreak! With the deadline now into hours, the field is wide open.

As Pakistanis cast their ballot, Asim Jahangir and Huma Khan pose the question: Can female voters change the outcomes of the country's general elections?

India needs to make structural, ideological and strategic transformations to assume a greater role in the world.

Part 2 of a series which looks at the fractious upcoming Afghan presidential election next year.

Destabilisation in Yemen and Pakistan is tipping the scale in the wrong direction for the US drone warfare policy.