More than 1 billion people are going to the polls in South Asia this year. In a test of democratic values and human rights in the region, voters will choose leaders in five countries: Bangladesh ...

Pakistan has a long and turbulent history with democracy. Since its independence in 1947, the country has experienced military coups, martial law regimes, and abrupt dissolutions of assemblies.

Despite these poor human rights records, all three countries will join traditional U.S. allies among the 111 nations in President Joe Biden's inaugural two-day "Summit for Democracy," which kicks ...

Pakistan has encountered formidable challenges in the establishment of fully functional democratic political institutions, in contrast to other South Asian countries like India and Sri Lanka.

A round half the world’s population live in places that held elections in 2024. Some 1.65bn ballots were cast across more than 70 countries. But while the number of democratic elections in a ...

Pakistan’s leadership has to realise that the repercussions of a continuation of the status quo would likely lead to continued decline in security and economic conditions. Published in The ...

THE Trump administration has halted nearly all US government funding for programmes that promote democracy and human rights in many countries, a move that experts warn will have significant ...

ISLAMABAD, (IANS) – Pakistan has decided against attending the second Summit for Democracy 2023 after being invited by the US and co-host countries. Responding to media queries about Pakistan ...

Pakistan on Tuesday declined to attend the second Summit for Democracy, hosted this week by the United States, saying it would instead engage bilaterally with Washington on democracy. The Biden ...

A cable reportedly showed that the U.S. pressured Pakistan to oust then-prime minister Imran Khan over ties to Russia during the invasion of Ukraine.

That may be because the two countries’ regimes have never been more alike. In the past, India’s commitment to secularism and democracy stood in sharp contrast to Pakistan’s religious ...

Pakistan has never been able to get it right; next door in India, the world’s biggest democracy, elections a couple of months from now are likely to extend the grip of Narendra Modi’s Hindu ...