Join our Whatsapp channel Just days before this year’s US presidential election, when I was wrapping up my interviews with a cross-section of voters in some US states for a research project, I was approached by an old white man in Denver, Colorado.... The man asked me who I was voting for.... But even before I could complete my sentence, he asked, “ Are you voting for Trump?...

The common narrative doing the rounds regarding the rise of the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan( TLP) is that the radical Barelvi party was the creation of the military establishment that used it as a tool to undermine the government of PML-N( 2013-2018).... Most political analysts are convinced that the TLP was treated as a clandestine political ally by the military establishment that was at loggerheads with the PML-N regime and wanted to pave the way for the PTI. Read: Is the TLP is an anti-Al Qae

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The black eye that it received in the war further diminished the reputation that it had built for itself( that of being a South Asian hegemon). The US has been nurturing India to counter China’s influence in South Asia.... China only seems to be getting stronger internally and externally, mainly through its economic muscle.... In 2021, writing for theHarvard Business Review, Rana Mitter and Elsbeth Johnson put forward an interesting thesis....

The phrase ‘Frankenstein’s monster’ has come to mean an ambitious( and even unnatural) creation which not only becomes a threat to society, and to itself, but also to those who created it.... He creates a humanoid, expecting him to be pure in emotion and thought.... The creation tries to fit into society, but fails....

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The early 20th century brought to a close what the British historian Eric Hobsbawm dubbed the ‘Age of Empire.’ As empires declined, especially after World War I, they fragmented and became nation-states.... It was a modern idea rooted in some of the first rebellions against the main centres of power in the ‘pre-modern’ world: the Church and the monarchy.... Therefore, in theory, nation-states were supposed to be democratic and secular....

Join our Whatsapp channel The birth of modern political parties can be traced back to the late 18th century.... They invested more in strengthening their relations with a limited electorate who too belonged to elite groups.... The working classes were not allowed to vote, and nor were women and non-white segments of the population.As industrialisation intensified, the number of people belonging to the working classes expanded....

Join our Whatsapp channel In August 1974, one Abdul Majeed Baloch hid himself in a tree with a grenade in hand.... At the time, Balochistan was in the grip of an insurgency.... It became increasingly militant after 2006, when Pakistan’s then military ruler, Gen Pervez Musharraf, ordered an operation that resulted in the death of prominent Baloch tribal leader Akbar Bugti....

Illustration by Abro Populism is a way of framing political ideas that can be filled with a verity of ideologies( C.... It is a performative political style.No matter where it’s coming from, it is manifested through a particular set of animated gestures, images, tones and symbols( B.... Moffitt, The Global Rise of Populism, 2016)....