2019

The politics of containers Containers were originally used for transportation of goods. Today they still carry goods but only when not in the service of the […]

The Ghost Projects “When I send my child to the market with 10 rupees to buy something, I demand an account of the money when he […]

The dysfunctional vehicle registration system I bought and registered a car in October 2017. To this day I drive with a temporary, stencilled, tin number plate, […]

The collector’s wife Almost like the military and the naval aides-de-camp, the two men, one in brown and the other in white uniform escorted this smartly […]

System assisted escape Police systems are designed to control and prevent crimes. A dysfunctional system, on the contrary, could do just the opposite. Consider the following […]

Unverified SIMs – an institutional abetment The discovery of 5000 illegal SIMs in May 2014, held by just one apprehended terrorist in Karachi, came as a […]

Simmering over SIMs Naeem Sadiq Tuesday, April 01, 2014 The News One ought to be intellectually challenged or be suffering from some kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder […]

Showcasing vanity at Wagah Much before the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan can agree on a solution to Kashmir problem, converting Siachen into a peace […]

Urgent reforms and actions requested in Excise and Taxation Department Citizens Police Liaison Committee has been supporting the Sindh government and the Sindh Police in identifying […]

Reforming the Government ‘when you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount’. Dakota Indians Dakota Indians were famous for […]

Reforming HEC and ECP At first sight there seems little in common between the Higher Education Commission (HEC) and the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), except […]

Recycling Failed Rehabilitation ‘Models’ By Naeem Sadiq One ought to be suspicious when building a ‘model’ is proposed as a solution to every complex institutional problem. […]

Promoting a culture of tax evasion Only in Pakistan can an individual who never pays any income tax, now buy property and vehicles worth millions of […]

Police – ‘Personal’ vs. ‘Parallel’ On the evening of April 4, 2016, a number of TV channels began splashing the ‘breaking news’ of a gun attack […]

Process improvement – the best tool in our survival kit Every process has at least three versions. What you think it is : what it actually […]

Policing : People vs Processes There are at least three lessons that could have been learnt from the unfortunate kidnapping incident of the Chief Justice’s son. […]

Police deserve respect and protection At approximately 5:30pm, on Saturday the 2nd March, at the Gizri Boulevard and Gizri Avenue intersection, a reddish maroon Suzuki that […]

Passports for the rich The rich and the arrogant class of Pakistan never stands in a queue – unless it happens to be a foreign country. […]

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 that […]