Citizens’ Rights

December 29, 2019

Sovereignty vs. electric cables Part 2

  Sovereignty vs. electric  cables In a small village in Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan, the residents chose to live without electricity  for many years because installing an […]
January 20, 2020

Delinquent Vehicles

The Express Tribune Opinion Delinquent vehicles By Naeem Sadiq Published: January 12, 2020 https://tribune.com.pk/story/2135259/6-delinquent-vehicles/ An estimated 100,000 to 200,000 vehicles with fraudulent credentials, unabashedly roam around […]
January 24, 2020

A janitor writes to the residents of DHA and Clifton

A janitor writes a letter of gratitude to the residents of DHA and Clifton.     Sir, I am a Cantonment Board Clifton’s contracted janitor. I […]
January 24, 2020

Dear CAA – pay correct wages to your contracted janitors

Dear CAA,     We look up to you as a leading, modern, progressive and high tech organisation.  How come you are so unlawful, unethical and […]
February 9, 2020

CAA raises the salaries of its contracted janitors

“Citizens For Equal Rights” are absolutely happy to announce that after a prolonged struggle of 1 year and 2 days, numerous complaint letters, e- mails, visits […]
February 10, 2020

Pakistan’s missing National Commission for the Rights of Child

Should A rapist B hanged or not. If hanged, should method A be preferred over method B. Is A more Islamic than B? Would A be […]
February 14, 2020

Fraudulent vehicles in Sindh

Neither lawful nor judicious. Parked at 0930, 13 Feb 2020, at Sindh High Court. A privately registered vehicle fraudulently posing as a Sindh High Court vehicle […]
February 26, 2020

Can Information Commissions make a diffrence?

Can Information Commissions make a difference  Governments in Pakistan have traditionally been reluctant to the point of resentment when it comes to sharing information that ought […]
February 26, 2020

Where the money goes

IT has been a tumultuous month at the World Bank. The bank’s armies of analysts and economists routinely produce research on topics ranging from best practices […]
March 18, 2020

Can Covid-19 trigger Pakistan’s digital revolution

Can Corona trigger Pakistan’s digital revolution Pandemic diseases are known to have reshaped politics, influenced social structures, demolished entrenched racial and economic patterns and altered the […]
March 18, 2020

A letter from the aggrieved and the endangered

A letter from the aggrieved and the endangered. Dear Curse Corona, On behalf of the Markhor Association of Northern Areas, the Migratory Society of Houbara Bustards, […]
March 26, 2020

Kheaban e Jabal

Kheaban e Jabal – 1 of 4 A mountain of contradictions. Tariq Bin Ziyad neither conquered nor resided on this Kheaban e Jabal. The name “Jabal” […]
April 5, 2020

Post Covid-19 Pakistan

Post Covid-19 Pakistan Three key obstacles ought to be addressed for Pakistan to end its endless journey of poverty, inequality and mis-governance.  To limit its ‘bursting […]
April 23, 2020

Fearvid-19, the new strain

Fearvid-19 No wonder, Pakistan’s Houbara Bustards, Markhors and Siberian Cranes are euphoric with relief and joy. Those who mercilessly massacred them with ferocious falcons and long […]
April 24, 2020

National Savings Organisation

National Savings Organisation If you feel offended by words like Auschwitz, Gulag and Guantanamo, you must be respected for your sensitivity to mistreatment. Not many, however, […]
April 27, 2020

Do away with the Ruet e Hilal Committee

Do away with the Ruet-e-Hilal Committee When and where a moon will be sighted or not, is entirely an issue of its orbit, trajectory, mass and […]
May 3, 2020

CPLC-Sindh Police Zainab Alert App

  Mr. Zubair Habib                                                                 3nd May 2020 Chief, Citizens Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) Sindh Governor House, Karachi   Dear Zubair Habib,   Developing Zainab Alert App […]
May 15, 2020

Pakistan must realise

Does Pakistan have a realization that many of the institutional structures that we rely upon were developed for colonial conveniences and have been obsolete for a […]
May 15, 2020

Family Tensions

Imagine you are a retired employee of the Government of Pakistan and planning to “rest in peace” any time soon. It may be appropriate for you […]
May 19, 2020

Esso Peas

Esso Peas    Pakistanis  and peas go back a long way.  Earliest archaeological finds confirm that peas  were popular  with the people of Harappan civilization some […]