Governance Reforms

March 30, 2019

Is the government reformable

Is the government reformable? ‘when you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount’. Dakota Indians Dakota Indians were famous […]
March 30, 2019

Jail Break

Criminal Negligence or Calculated Connivance? Citizens demand resignation of CM Sindh and Home Minister Sindh. Success in ‘War against Terror’ is critically linked to a nation’s […]
March 30, 2019

Lessons for Pakistani mayors

Lessons for Pakistani mayors – who destroyed even the existing infrastructure and pushed their cities back in time by decades. “Why do you always ask me […]
March 30, 2019

Letter to DIG traffic

Dear DIG traffic, 22 November 2014 Greetings. 1. Thank you for the presentation on traffic initiatives, that was sent by your office to me and five […]
March 30, 2019

Life as a citizen

Life as a citizen Naeem Sadiq The News Tuesday, November 04, 2014 http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-9-282208-Life-as-a-citizen Every process has at least three versions. What you think it is : […]
March 30, 2019

Misbehaving passengers at airports

Director General Civil Aviation, 19 Nov 2018 Chairman Pakistan International Airlines, Director General Airport Security Force. Dear Sirs, As a citizen one would like to know […]
March 30, 2019

Misplaced patriotism

Misplaced patriotism As expected the Lord did not come to the rescue of our cricket team. Notwithstanding colour or creed, He stuck to his age-old principle […]
March 30, 2019

Mukhtaran Mai vs. the rest of Pakistan

Mukhtaran Mai vs. the rest of Pakistan Mukhtaran has engaged in fighting a moral war for the past three years against a society and its institutions, […]
March 30, 2019

My democracy will not deliver

My democracy will not deliver As if advertising a new maternity service, the President declared in his opening remarks in Washington, “my democracy will deliver”. The […]
March 30, 2019

National Assembly vs Nizam e Adal

National Assembly vs the Nizam-e-Adal Even while the ink had not yet dried from the presidential signature on the Malakand Nizam-e-Adal accord, the two prime signatories […]
March 30, 2019

National Saving Organisation

National Savings Organisation A visit to a National Saving Centre is not something that one looks forward to. Lack of information, long queues, inadequate seating and […]
March 30, 2019

National Savings – frozen in time

Frozen in time – The National Savings Organisation There must be something uniquely queer with ordinary Pakistanis. They voluntarily choose to park their savings in National […]
March 30, 2019

Our reclusive Information Commissions

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 […]
March 30, 2019

Passports for the rich

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. […]
March 30, 2019

Police desrve respect and protection

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 […]
March 30, 2019

Policing – people vs processes

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. […]
March 30, 2019

Process Improvement CCB

Process improvement – the best tool in our survival kit Every process has at least three versions. What you think it is : what it actually […]
March 30, 2019

Police – ‘Personal’ vs. ‘Parallel’

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 […]
March 30, 2019

Promoting a culture of tax evasion

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 […]
March 30, 2019

Recycling failed rehabilitation models

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. […]