14 July 2019

• Presumptuous: (of a person or their behavior) failing to observe the limit of what is permitted or appropriate. 
• Media ban on convicted and under-trial politicians: At best presumptuous and at worst draconian. (Ali Chughtai)

3 July 2019

• Demarche: A political step or initiative
• Last, week, Pakistan's ambassador to Kabul made comments suggesting that any aggression from India could affect Afghanistan, earning him the ire and diplomatic demarche from the Afghan government. (Richi Kumar. Hikmat Nuri). 
• Putsch: A violent attempt to overthrow a government; a coup.
• It was a remarkably smooth putsch against the man who had seen off rebellions, survived United States sanctions and evaded arrests by the International Criminal Court on charges of genocide and and war crimes in Darfur. (Mahir Ali)