No Pakistani prime minister has ever completed a full five-year term, and the country has gone to the IMF about two dozen times. This guide explains how the first fact helps to cause the…
Asad Ali Toor is an Islamabad journalist who reports on the Supreme Court and runs the YouTube channel Asad Toor Uncensored. He was assaulted in his home in 2021, jailed for three weeks in…
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See all Politics Explained →Most federal laws must pass the National Assembly and the Senate and then receive the President's assent. Here is the route a…
A caretaker government runs the country between the dissolution of an assembly and the swearing-in of the next elected government. The Constitution…
A no-confidence vote lets the National Assembly remove a Prime Minister between elections. Here is what the Constitution requires at each step,…
The Senate gives every province the same number of seats, whatever its population. Here is how its 96 members are chosen, what…
On 8 February 2024 Pakistanis voted in the most disputed election in a generation. This plain-English guide sets out the road to…
Aitzaz Hasan was a 15-year-old student from Hangu who died on 6 January 2014 while stopping a suicide bomber at the gate…
