2019
March 29, 2019
Our right to know About the same time as Secretary Clinton and other powerful members of the ‘Company Bahadur’ were landing at Islamabad airport […]
March 29, 2019
Federal Secretary Aviation 6 Feb. 2019 Aviation Division, Cabinet Secretariat. PIA Building 2nd Floor, Blue Area, Islamabad, Ph: 051- 9244249-9244140, 9244423 Dear Sir, […]
March 29, 2019
The Suppression of Information Suppression of information has always been high on the list of every government’s priorities. After all, information is an […]
March 29, 2019
Mr. Zulfiqar Ali Shah, 12 March 2019 Secretary, (G.A), SGA&CD Department Room no. 217, 2nd floor, New Sindh Secretariat building. Kamal Ata Turk Road, Karachi, Ph: […]
March 29, 2019
The Right to ‘No’ “Democratic progress requires the ready availability of true and complete information. To act otherwise is to give way to despotic secrecy.” […]
March 29, 2019
Our reclusive Information Commissions Were the Federal and the Sindh Provincial Access to Information Acts hastily churned out, only as a ‘public relations’ exercise? The truth […]
March 29, 2019
Pakistan’s dysfunctional ‘Right to Information’ When laws are created solely to present a façade of modernity instead of providing any benefits to ordinary citizens, we […]
March 29, 2019
Our reclusive Information Commissions Were the Federal and Provincial Access to Information Acts hastily churned out, only as a ‘public relations’ exercise? The truth is […]
March 29, 2019
Information – a right denied By Naeem Sadiq Zahid Abdullah Sweden passed the world’s first freedom of information law in 1766. Pakistan enacted one in […]
March 29, 2019
FOI – an ornamental law Like the crystal figurines, glass vases and porcelain candelabras that spend their aimless lives in the drawing rooms of […]
March 29, 2019
Environmental plunder and the right to know The ancient Romans had foreseen that one day there will be an Islamic Republic, whose rulers will be hell-bent […]
March 29, 2019
Federal Secretary Aviation 6 Feb. 2019 Aviation Division, Cabinet Secretariat. PIA Building 2nd Floor, Blue Area, Islamabad, Ph: 051- 9244249-9244140, 9244423 Dear Sir, Request […]
March 29, 2019
Director General Civil Aviation Authority, Headquarters Civil Aviation Authority, 6 Feb. 2019 Terminal 1 Building, Karachi Airport, Tel: +9221.99071111 support@caapakistan.com.pk Dear Sir, Request for […]
March 29, 2019
A presidential refusal A 30 member entourage accompanied the President of Pakistan during his Haj visit to Saudi Arabia in October 2013. There were conflicting […]
March 29, 2019
Will some one please write off my loans? I have suffered from severe Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, since my application for writing off […]
March 29, 2019
Will we refuse to elect the ‘loan takers’ in 2007 “The progress here has been superficial … absolute poverty and absolute wealth in Pakistan … […]
March 29, 2019
The right to refuse Begging, as a profession could well compete with many others considered oldest on the list, with very similar characteristics. The first […]
March 29, 2019
The loan lie linkage By now the loan lie linkage is a familiar pattern. You tell lies to take loans. You take loans and […]
March 29, 2019
$350 million ‘Access to Justice’ Loan The compulsive obsession for beggary has taught us many smart tricks. We now have the skills to invent such appealing […]
March 29, 2019
Modern Slavery “Rags make paper, paper makes money, money makes banks, banks make loans, loans make beggars, beggars make rags.” ~ Anon. Psychologist Martin Seligman’s theory […]