Umer Farooq is a senior journalist based in Islamabad. He specializes in writing on politics, foreign policy and security issues.
How easy is it to manipulate elections? The case of MQM and PML-N
Army troops will be providing security to the polling stations, polling staff and election material, including ballot papers and ballot boxes
The media is under pressure from different quarters
With just 10 days to the general elections, the future of Nawaz Sharif and his political party PML-N remains mired in confusion
The ECP may have set a bar on expenses incurred on election campaigns, there are signs that candidates are on a spending spree albeit extra...
Is asset declaration meant to discredit the political system?
What lies behind Imran Khan’s decision to award tickets to new entrants in PTI and contesting elections on five National Assembly seats himself?
A chronological review of the history of Fata reforms
As Nawaz Sharif’s anti-establishment rhetoric gets intensified amid large scale defections from his party, the integrity of PML-N still does not...
Despite high hopes of PTI that overseas Pakistanis will be allowed to vote, it is now clear that they are not
