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Javed Hashmi, waving goodbye to his party, part of a larger trend

PTI turncoats and what they say about our party system

By Ahsan Butt Mon, Dec 26, 2011 8:44PM UTC View Comments

There is a conventional wisdom story out there on how the PTI is becoming a big, bad, scary machine. The story goes something like this: Imran Khan is personally popular –> higher chances of success in elections for PTI –> more big-name turncoats join the party –> higher chances of success in elections for PTI...

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Excerpt of the day

By Ahsan Butt Tue, Apr 05, 2011 12:51AM UTC View Comments

This is drawn from Nichola Khan’s Mohajir Militancy in Pakistan: Violence and transformation in the Karachi conflict. This passage is concerned with the similarities and differences between the MQM and JI, and as someone who’s always banging on about the need for more analysis of our parties and their structures, I thought I would highlight...

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Excerpt of the day, and some thoughts on the JI

By Ahsan Butt Thu, Jan 20, 2011 4:17AM UTC View Comments

This is a passage from Vali Nasr’s book on the JI, The Vanguard of the Islamic Revolution: The Jama’at-i Islami of Pakistan (which I should’ve read a long time ago but somehow never got around to it). Despite its roots in the Islamic tradition, the Jama’at-i Islami is a modern party. Its structure, procedural methods,...

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