For creating paginated list of articles (being it list of articles inside section, or search results, or whatever), you better use this kosher code from here
Pagination won't appear if it is not needed. Add sixth article and it should appear (list is limited to 5 results, only after that next and previous items exist)
-- Ljuba Rankovic Senior Front End Developer, Sourcefabric ljuba.rankovic@sourcefabric.org