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Caught in loop of endless political cycle - Pakistan Observer (opens the original)
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PAKISTAN has become remarkably good at surviving political crises and remarkably bad at ending them. Governments change, leaders are removed, arrested or returned to power, elections are held, courts intervene and negotiations are announced. Yet the argument rarely ends. It simply changes its form and waits for the next confrontation. Yesterday’s political battles become tomorrow’s grievances, while every new government inherits not only the country’s problems but also its unfinished wars. The r
A shared threat, a selective response - Pakistan Observer (opens the original)
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THERE is a particular cruelty in fighting a war that your neighbours are permitted to sustain indefinitely. Pakistan has lived with that reality for about three decades, confronting militant groups that repeatedly regroup across a border it cannot fully control. More than 80,000 Pakistanis have lost their lives to terrorism since 2001. Soldiers, police officers, teachers, labourers, worshippers and schoolchildren have paid the price of a conflict whose origins increasingly lie beyond Pakistan’s
Balochistan: Captive to its elites - Pakistan Observer (opens the original)
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BALOCHISTAN is often portrayed as a province held hostage by terrorism. That is only part of the story. It has also been held captive by decades of poor governance, political neglect and an elite that has too often failed the very people it claims to represent. The result is a province trapped in a cycle of violence from which it has yet to escape. The latest chapter claimed forty-two Pakistani lives in just four days. In Ziarat, militants stormed a police post guarding the Mangi Dam pumping sta
The age of anger - Pakistan Observer (opens the original)
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THERE is a particular quality to the anger visible in Pakistan today that distinguishes it from ordinary frustration or political disagreement. It is not the anger of a specific grievance that might be resolved through negotiation or reform. It is something more pervasive and more alarming, a generalized fury that appears at traffic signals and erupts on social media timelines, that colours political discourse and corrodes family conversations, that makes strangers hostile and neighbours distant
The great divide: Pakistan’s parallel realities - Pakistan Observer (opens the original)
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PAKISTAN increasingly functions as two parallel societies. One purchases solutions from the private market whenever public institutions fail. The other remains dependent on the very institutions that have deteriorated through decades of neglect. They share the same constitution, the same laws and the same national identity, but their daily experience of citizenship is fundamentally different. The most consequential divide in Pakistan today is not between provinces, ethnicities or even income gro
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