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So, just to be 100% clear, you believe that the IEA is more stable than Pakistan? Despite the reasons I pointed out? All I can say is that you need to start reading the history of the state, which you are neither addressing, nor mentioning. I'm sorry but your understanding of politics and...

Agree, and I'm tired of these scum elites telling ordinary Pakistani people that they're too stupid to elect their own leaders. Every self-serving leader has said things like this, here are some gems from Pakistan's finest leaders: Iskander Mirza on dictatorship: Ayub Khan saying Pakistani...

Sure, but tell that to the IEA that has to face them. The point I was making is that the Taliban will find it hard to balance the power dynamics in Afghanistan if they are inflexible and deny representation. Afghanistan is a diverse country with many factions in it, either all of them run it...

I know some individuals cite the Chinese system as a way to govern Pakistan, they would like to see their leader like Chairman Mao or Xi, 10-year rule etc. Pakistan was founded as a democracy, its constituent states were joined on the basis that they would have a constitutional democracy as...

I did say it's not the the only system, and I also mentioned that it's easy to go without people's representation when you float on oil/gas, countries in bold are either totally reliant or heavily reliant on those streams of income. I would bet that should oil money dry up and LNG become...

Not the only system, but it works well. Allows people to become smart enough to govern themselves. It's especially effective when countries can't rely on giant oil or gas reserves to placate the masses, don't have massive internal markets, or in the case of a country like Pakistan - are made up...

Well, they are drafting a new constitution, so I suppose this means they will have some form of ameer ul momineen as the executive and some shura as the cabinet branch, then decentralised systems (non-legislative?), and the courts structure will be SC + provincial + local jirga style. So...

Well said, I would add that liberalism wasn't the state policy that earned us a decade long suicide bombing era, and Pakistan's global image isn't in the dirt because it's seen as being "too liberal", etc.

Both parties should be produced and made to testify under oath. The contempt of court angle is not what I'm talking about.

Have both, have the media trial (free speech), and then take the matter to court so the truth can be decided. If there are other parties involved or alleged, bring them all in, regardless of who they are. Same goes for the defendant's side.

Decide the matter in courts, summon both Shamim and Nisar, find the truth of the matter and act bury Shamim if his narrative is found to be lacking.

Looks like all those newbies with 50 posts who all suggested sticking another engine on for extra thrust alongside 5 new hardpoints were onto something. :D

Pakistan’s political dynasties pre-date its constitution, the same families were in charge 30 years ago.

No person sitting abroad enjoying religious freedoms should view this as okay. A cake is trivial sure, but attitudes to other religions and minorities in Pakistan is a serious issue.

Damn impressive firepower and accuracy.

Agree, a lot more besides. Debt is not a bad instrument if you’re using it for investment purposes and if the GDP return dwarfs the repayment, but in our case it has been and is still being used to fund twin deficits, for interest and principal payments, and on current expenditure as opposed to...

Whatever the case was with previous government and this government, the fact is that we have an absurdly high debt to GDP ratio, and a big chunk of that is owed externally and denominated in USD, meanwhile we have pitiful exports and still no real revival of FDI, it’s just remittances that keep...

Certainly possible, but wouldn't IK rather jump off from his helicopter rather than getting into bed with PPP? So far, he hasn't seen fit to come to parliament and sit amongst the scum, or meet his own allies in Q league and MQM, let alone align with PPP. If IK steps out and someone like SMQ...

Ayub, Bhutto and Yahya were all useless self-serving weasels of one type or another. We'll never stop losing until the elite are forced out of power.

It's all noise right now, PML seems to be winning by-elections in Punjab, but even there the government's vote share is not too bad. PPP surge in Punjab is more forced that anything, TLP were theorised to be king makers. In reality, they will be used for political games where possible, and to...