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Politics and the judiciary

Posted by ADP on Friday, November 2, 2012, In : Mushtaq Gaadi 
“The doctrine of independence is not to be raised to the level of dogma so as to enable the judiciary to function as a kind of super-legislature or super-executive.”

Alladi Krishnaswami Ayyar, member of the drafting committee of the Indian constitution.

THE survival and consolidation of parliamentary democracy in Pakistan hinges on how the emergent judicialisation of politics is dealt with and curtailed in the near future. Judicialisation refers to the profound shift in power away fr...


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Against populism

Posted by ADP on Monday, January 30, 2012, In : Mushtaq Gaadi 

Against populism

Mushtaq Gaadi | Opinion | From the Newspaper
January 19, 2012 (2 weeks ago)

POPULISM is the new cloak of right-wing politics in Pakistan. As elsewhere, this emergent rightist populism is constructed upon the pillars of hyper-patriotism, xenophobia and rhetoric of anti-politics.

Its manifest target is the incumbent government, but it potentially threatens the ongoing democratic transition and the institutional edifice of parliamentary democracy.

Populism typically thrives...


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