Armed democracy

 A   FEW recent developments provide some example of how the deep state systematically encroaches upon  the citizen,s constitutional freedoms and fundamental, through an SRO, recently allowed personnel of the premier intelligence agency to intercept and trace the communications f any citizen in the interest of national security" obviously this was done in response to the strictures passed and observations made by some conscientious  judges against the widespread practice of illegal technical surveillance .



separately in a statement made before the sindh high court the interior ministry justified the ban on X, claiming, that the social media platform was a "threat to peace and national security".


 It further said that hostile elements operating on X have  nefarious intentions to create in environment of chaos and instability .


With the ultimate goal of destabilising  the country and plunging it into some from of anarchy :

this  paper correctly noted that silencing social media is no solution to the  actual problem of growing public discontent " why is the sate bent on suppressing a restlees  public and  blocking dissent? This is the question to ask can democracy thrive without debate and dissent how does it survive the  draconian measure and serious of follies committed by state institutions in the recent past?

Things fall apart the centre cannot hold wrote william butler  yeats in a different era  of fear and violence yeats refers not  to some kind of moderate political middle but rather to the moral centre of civilisation when the moral centre gives way nations  fall david french asserts in recent piece for the new  york times .


in the corridors of power,

The resurrections of the PTI

was seen as an insurrection.

The most important post - elections  developments has indeed been the stunning reversal of fortunes for the beleaguered PTI.  Which was being treated as a defunct political party by the elections commission following the chief justice -led supreme court bench,s

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