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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