Stories by Tahir Mehdi

Modi machinations

India’s ‘Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail’ has thrown up more questions than it has answered.

Updated 01 Jun, 2024 10:12am

Making hay of wheat

Nothing can match the contentment that a brimming silo of wheat brings to a farming family.

Updated 24 May, 2024 08:57am

India’s new birth

Can the BJP continue to shepherd the 150m voters it rounded up in the past two elections?

Updated 06 May, 2024 09:33am

Backdoor delimitation

It is a board game where a right move can checkmate one’s opponent way before Election Day.

Updated 04 Nov, 2023 08:41am

A digital fairy-tale

The current delimitations have made widespread changes to the boundaries of constituencies.

Published 14 Oct, 2023 07:36am

Delimitation blues

The ECP has been selective in the current delimitation exercise.

Updated 08 Oct, 2023 09:06am

Raising the bar

Actively barring women from voting may soon end, but many obstacles remain.

Published 10 Sep, 2018 06:04am

Analysis: PTI poised to take President House

The ruling party has the highest number of party votes in the electoral college for the elections.

Updated 02 Sep, 2018 02:13pm

Ordeal of the polling staff

One can’t expect polling officials to go through hassle without expectation of reward or recognition.

Published 31 Aug, 2018 07:24am

Rethinking transition

Caretakers are an aberration as they were not part of the original 1973 Constitution.

Updated 20 Aug, 2018 09:59am

Election 2013 — between hope and despair

Transition of power from one elected govt to another was no small feat.

Updated 27 Jun, 2018 07:54am

Delimitation praise

The exercise wasn’t without challenges, but the ECP met them.

Published 27 May, 2018 07:05am

Independents as kingmakers?

There are many assumptions about the relationship between ‘electables’ and parties.

Published 19 May, 2018 06:04am

Lemonade elections

There is no better time for voters to judge the PML-N than the month of July.

Updated 06 May, 2018 08:02am

‘Seats’ that change loyalties

While defections are not unusual before elections, this time the trend has some new characteristics.

Published 27 Apr, 2018 07:50am

Delimitation & identity politics

Apart from Karachi, identity politics has been operating below the surface.

Published 08 Apr, 2018 06:47am

Obfuscating Balochistan

The numerical equality of constituencies does not always result in equal suffrage.

Updated 30 Mar, 2018 10:46am

Delimitation paradox

Inequality is a direct outcome of the law itself that has set the principles of delimitation.

Published 20 Mar, 2018 07:02am

Case for direct Senate elections

Collectively, Pakistan’s senators may not represent the ethno-linguistic diversity of their provinces.

Published 13 Mar, 2018 07:14am

Equalising constituencies

The inequality of votes is a direct consequence of drawing up unequal constituencies.

Published 16 Jan, 2018 03:08am