Article 62, 63 can be used by opponents or ROs to disqualify a candidate for having “inadequate” knowledge of Islam.

It may be necessary for the finance minister of the interim federal government to be sent in to bat.

The most important challenge is to develop and systematically implement a strategy to confront violent extremism.

For cities to become the new engines of growth, public order and rule of law are necessary, not the fires of anarchy.

Addressing the crisis involves uniting state organisations to provide justice to those who massacre innocents.

The new government will be confronted with an array of challenges in the economic, security and diplomatic spheres.

The control of violence is a necessary condition for sustained growth to occur in Pakistan.

Apart from politics and economics, you cannot have a democracy without a democratic culture.

In the case of Pakistan, a combination of political, economic and social factors has created such a critical juncture.

Qadri tapped into the growing resentment in his fiery rhetoric: deprivation of masses in contrast to elite luxury.