Peace, not polls.

WINSTON Churchill famously said, 'Britain will win the war if our courts are delivering justice to the people'. It is time for us to keep reminding ourselves of those golden words. What is the big hurry in the apex courts for elections in two of the provinces? There have been other occasions when a way out of one constitutional rigmarole or the other has been found. It makes one wonder why it is not possible this time.

For instance, the Constitution requires holding of census in the country at an interval of every 10 years to ensure fair representation of people in the legis-lature. That has not happened many a time. And nobody has been framed for constitutional violation.

The nation wants to know where have all domestic and foreign borrowed loans gone, or have they vanished into thin air?

We need to worry about the misery being unleashed through International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreements that have been signed since...

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