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WHEN the television had come to Pakistan in 1964, its transmission time was limited to a few hours in the evening. With the passage of time, more channels came along, and today there are about a hundred of them functioning round the clock. Almost every channel telecasts programmes for eight hours daily, and the content is re-telecast twice to complete the 24-hour cycle. There are only two options: first, the programme schedule should be extended to 12 hours and repeated only once for the next 12 hours. Second, the present eight-hour cycle should be repeated only once, and not twice, to save time and electricity. ....
April 18, 2021 The by-election in Daska showed some interesting trends suggesting perhaps that the rules of the political game are changing Elections have been studied world over to understand the attitudes and concerns of citizens. However, psephology, or the study of elections, is yet to be taken seriously in Pakistan. The indifference towards the subject is tied to a general lack of attention that social sciences suffer in Pakistan. It is also a result of the underdevelopment of representative political institutions given the chequered history of democracy in Pakistan. In this piece we seek to use the Daska election as a case study to show that rules of the political game are changing in the Punjab. This change may be both welcome and perilous. ....