ANP

During the run-up to Election 2013, the phrase ‘baba ta easy load ka’ (send baba some easy load) had become the bane of the ANP’s existence. Talk about the 800 martyrs of ANP and the response would be: “yes, but baba ta easy load ka”.…

Of the many ignorant and morally offensive words spewed out by Imran Khan after the Peshawar church attack none were more egregious than his castigation of the ANP for criticising the provincial government and politicising the situation.…

By the morning of May 12, the PTI’s tsunami had officially swept through Peshawar valley. This was a victory that was mostly at the expense of the ANP, thus prompting many to declare it to be a spent force – the strongest proof of which was…

Countless bomb blasts, devastating floods, a massive jailbreak in which hundreds of suspected militants escaped, a demoralised police force facing devastating attacks, a hostile media, a party riven by factionalism and inexperience and…

It was a cold, misty evening in Karachi some months ago. At a friend’s place, Zahra Shahid Hussain was trying to convince a motley group of PTI enthusiasts and critics from different social and professional backgrounds on why Imran Khan…

These are desperate times in Pakistan. With elections right round the corner, the parties of the political coalition that ruled the country the past five years – the PPP, the ANP, the MQM and the PML-Q – haven’t yet begun their election…

The Awami National Party (ANP) began its campaign with the slogan ‘pur amn Pakistan’. However, in the aftermath of the attack on the Bilours of Peshawar, an unofficial slogan came to the fore and has since taken over – ‘watan ya kafan’…

Since the 1980s, British democracy produced nine prime ministers, two of them – Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair – elected for three consecutive terms each based on their popularity. All of them served their terms and left to make space for…

A grenade attack on the home of a PPP candidate in Peshawar is followed by a deadly suicide attack on an Awami National Party rally in the city. Events of this nature remind us that the beginning of election season in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa…

The 2013 election is stillborn – at least till now. With less than four weeks left to the polls, the political landscape has barely moved forward from the preliminary stage of filing the papers, followed by appeals in both the ECP and the…