Decimating Democracy in 140 Characters or Less: Pakistan Army’s Subjugation of State Institutions through Twitter

Upadhyay, Akshat

doi:10.1080/09700161.2019.1600823

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“…Work on social media in India and Pakistan has focused on healthcare [1], natural disasters [47], selfpromotion (e.g. "brand marketing") primarily in relation to elections [2,3,40], or on election forecasting [36,54], though [65] does argue that the Pakistan Army uses social media to subvert democracy. While these works only focus on intracountry analysis, our work also examines tensions between India and Pakistan.…”

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A Computational Analysis of Polarization on Indian and Pakistani Social Media

Tyagi¹,

Field²,

Lathwal³

et al. 2020

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Between February 14, 2019 and March 4, 2019, a terrorist attack in Pulwama, Kashmir followed by retaliatory air strikes led to rising tensions between India and Pakistan, two nuclear-armed countries. In this work, we examine polarizing messaging on Twitter during these events, particularly focusing on the positions of Indian and Pakistani politicians. We use label propagation technique focused on hashtag cooccurences to find polarizing tweets and users. Our analysis reveals that politicians in the ruling political party in India (BJP) used polarized hashtags and called for escalation of conflict more so than politicians from other parties. Our work offers the first analysis of how escalating tensions between India and Pakistan manifest on Twitter and provides a framework for studying polarizing messages.

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Section: Discussion and Related Workmentioning

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A Computational Analysis of Polarization on Indian and Pakistani Social Media

Tyagi¹,

Field²,

Lathwal³

et al. 2020

Preprint

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“…Some of the pro-democracy politicians perceive that the amendment in the army act has challenged the civil supremacy in Pakistan, and it harms the democratic norms, which once again transforms the nascent democratic system of Pakistan into a controlled democracy or hybrid democracy in which the non-political actors have a proportionate influence on policy and decisionmaking (Khan, 2020). While the democratically elected authorities rule only in name (Upadhyay, 2019). The famous writer Ayesha Siddiqa predicted a total contradiction of Francis Fukuyama's End of the History.…”

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The Continuation of Democracy in Pakistan: An Analysis of 2018 General Elections

Khan¹,

Farmanullah

Khan

2022

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July 25th 2018 marked as a momentous occasion in the political history of Pakistan as for the first time in 72 years of history of Pakistan, the third consecutive general elections and second consecutive democratic transition were held from one party to another. As a result of the elections, PTI, with the support of the middle class, and urbanites youth, including male and female having greater access to electronic and digital media, with its agenda of change, working relations with the military establishment succeeded in forming its government at centre with Imran Khan as premier.Some argue that these developments established a strengthened democratic era in Pakistan; others see it as yet another pliant civilian government propped up by the non-political actors. However, during the present PTI regime, the social, political and economic profile ofPakistan has gone through significant changes which greatly affected the polity of Pakistan. The objective of this study is to explore how various developments directly or indirectly impinged the democratic process in Pakistan during the PTI government.

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