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Democracy a Greek innovation

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KARACHI: While most people hold the institution of democracy synonymous with the US, a poster exhibition currently on at the Arts Council under the joint aegis of the Arts Council and the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), sets the record straight. One of the posters from Greece reads, “Democracy: a Greek product, 2,500 years […]


Returning Officers ‘sabotaging’ democracy: HRCP

LAHORE: Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed serious concern over “systematic attempts to exclude candidates from elections and to sabotage people’s ability to elect candidates of their choice.” In a statement issued on Saturday, HRCP Executive Council explained that the latest process of scrutiny of candidates is a “witch hunt aimed at harassing […]


Freedom of expression and democracy

By: Malik Muhammad Ashraf Our nation has suffered enough at the hands of self-styled saviours and proponents of unconstitutional remedies to fix the maladies afflicting the system John Wilkes, a radical and popular politician of London, a journalist and pioneer of freedom of the press in Britain during the 18th century, writing in the first […]