If you want a demonstration of how democracies can degenerate into deplorable farce, then Pakistan is usually a good example. For one
The failed assassination attempt against ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan recently was not a surprise. When I covered the controversies around
History is cyclical, they say. Or, to quote George Lucas, “it’s like poetry, it rhymes.” That idea has been very much in
It’s an extraordinary fact of Pakistan’s turbulent history that no Prime Minister has ever been able to see out a full term.