It would require tangible investment in this project as a genuine gesture of sustainable redress and conciliation rather than just window-dressing and
pontification.
He further said: 'Clearly by the two provisions , only the 109 senators-elect and 360 Hon Members of the House of Representatives - elect , are empowered to decide who their leaders as regards the positions of President of the Senate, Deputy Senate President, Speaker of the House of Representatives and Deputy Speaker, should be at any given time, particularly at the commencement of a new Assembly 'Therefore, for any other person or group of persons outside the 469 constitutionally empowered persons to by way of
pontification, anointment, selection, appointment or endorsement, saying Senator A or B , is the one for this or that position is not only wrong but making clear affront on democracy itself.
What is unfortunate is that latter-day Nepali politics has so diluted this independent capability so as to make sure that
pontification of policies for Nepal is so convenient from down south.
So, without further
pontification, let's get into it.
Unfortunately, we have instead seen venomous
pontification as nonperformers and proxies take any and every opportunity to squeeze campaign points out of issues that go to the heart of the national interest in the lead-up to May's parliamentary elections.
It has seen Pakistan survive earthquakes, floods, social traumas, the murder of its leadership and the massacre of its schoolchildren, political upheavals, dismissal of elected prime ministers, self-satisfied
pontification by ousted leaders, and now the souffle aspirations of a sportsman-turned-politician who might soon announce his third marriage.
Which deaths receive the most attention from politicians, civil rights groups and white liberals and bring out marches, demonstrations and political
pontification? ItEs the blacks killed by police.
But what struck me, as I wandered among my musically-minded virtual friends, was the complete absence of angry
pontification and polemic.
We've seen it grab national headlines and spawn monthslong debate, analysis and no end of political
pontification. But social media tools also streamline communication, information dissemination and advertising.
Rowling, the character novelist of the Harry Potter series and her
pontification on the Palestinian-Israeli intractable.