The Roman Catholic Church is the last, the very last, remnant of those ancient feudal systems. The only governances similar in our modern times are the despotic dictatorships, 10 of which were featured in Parade magazine just last Sunday.

They guided the law to facilitate commerce--through land transfers during the feudal system breakdown and labor exploitation during the rise of the mercantile class and the Industrial Revolution.

With the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the Tokugawa sh ogunate collapsed and, with it, the entire feudal system of government.

The MQM leader opined that the reason why India secured its pure democratic system lies in the fact that soon after the freedom from the English empire, the country eliminated the feudal system and introduced and implemented extensive land reforms.

She said history was a witness to the fact that people did not get any facilities in feudal system and that was why the MQM was demanding creation of administrative units.

Vote buying an integral part of Philippine elections Duterte !-- -- MANILA, Philippines President Duterte yesterday said that vote buying is an "integral part" of elections in the Philippines, a country that he said is beset with poverty and a feudal system. Duterte claimed that everyone has engaged in vote buying which, according to him, comes in many forms.

According to the President, Filipinos were poor and dependent on their government, and this could be blamed on the existing feudal system in the country.

These practices are widespread in rural areas of Balochistan, Khyber Paktunkhwa, Punjab and Sindh province where tribal and feudal system is still very strong.

In such critical times of raising awareness, in society, on important topics such as the feudal system, violence against women, and political disaffection, a name and character that always comes to mind is of Barrister Daniyal, essayed by Shaz in Yaqeen Ka Safar.

'There should be and end to feudal system in the province, which is the main hurdle in development of the area,' he added.

KARACHI / LARKANA -- An educationist who has dedicated his life to teaching and social work has now set out to challenge the feudal system in Larkana, a stronghold of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the home district of its founder, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.