Masood Raja

We have created this live blog to report results and other events related to 2013 Pakistani elections. Please use THIS FORM to report latest events, results, or election irregularities in your area.
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It is fascinating, and a bit embarrassing, to watch the daily drama that has now become a life for our erstwhile dictator, patriarch, general and commando leader. That once his word was law and his will was carried through the extended power of his corps commanders (all heavily rewarded during the years of Musharraf’s...
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Drone attacks in Pakistan, Somalia, Afghanistan and Yemen are not justifiable morally, legally and politically. Attacks in Pakistan are being carried out with the consent of Pakistani authorities. (Col. Ann Wright). When President Obama was busy reciting the peace mantra once again and meeting leaders in the Middle East recently, scholars, diplomats and activists...
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INAUGURAL ISSUE: CALL FOR PAPERS: “CITIES”  The Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture is pleased to announce the launch of its new academic journal, Indus, and to invite submissions for our inaugural issue. Indus is seeking essays, research papers, reviews, criticism, and interviews from scholars and practitioners that address historical and contemporary visual,...
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Despite Unresolved Issues, Completion of Political Term is a Major Milestone South Asia Democracy Watch (SADeW), in a special meeting in Dallas, Texas last week, commended the people of Pakistan for successfully completing five years of democratic rule for the first time in the nation’s political history. The meeting congratulated all political parties in...
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Having just launched the journal, few of us sat together and talked till late night about this new and fascinating project. What came across through our conversation was the very essence of our project: the unacknowledged anxiety of invoking the very experiences that this journal hopes to record and materialize. One of us was...
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(Another Journal hosted by our OJS platform) This is to share with you all that we have just launched a new refereed, open access journal. Cognitariat: Journal of Contingent Labor, “As an open access refereed journal Cognitariat hopes to offer an open platform to all scholars, students, and activists who have or are laboring...
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This is to share the news that the website for South Asia Democracy Watch (SADeW) has now been launched and can be accessed at http://sadew.org. SADew is a Dallas-based international organization that describes itself in the following words: South Asia Democracy Watch (SADeW) works as a nonprofit organization to monitor and nurture democratic systems...
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We are pleased to announce that earlier today, Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies was moved successfully to our own hosting service: Open Access World. While we were able to move all our issues and files, we did have some trouble moving our user accounts. If you try to log in and cannot find...
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