Author: Hammaad Qayyum Khan, ANU

During the last two years of ‘democratic’ rule, Pakistan has experienced a whirlwind of challenges, with signs of more to come. Everything in Pakistani has an air of uncertainty attached to it − be it cricket or domestic and foreign policy. Democracy in Pakistan has experienced many different forms and taken on many different meanings, a product of the vagaries of political failure and shifting international alliance relations.

Eight years into the Pakistan’s alliance with the U.S., the so-called ‘frontline state’ of the war on terror continues to battle for its image. Read more…