Governance Reforms

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 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 right to safety at work Naeem Sadiq Express Tribune, Jan 4, 2017 http://tribune.com.pk/story/1283446/right-safety-work/ On October 17, 2000 a London-to-Leeds express train derailed south of Hatfield […]

The school arithmetic The good news Pakistan had been waiting for has finally arrived. On April 5, 2009, the ghosts who had permanently occupied the Shaheed […]

What is the stance of the ordinary citizens? The zealots have been granted their demands, condoned for their excesses and generously compensated for the return fare. […]

This is an Emergency. The son of the Chief Justice of Sindh High Court was kidnapped at 2:30 PM on June 20, 2016. The sad and […]

The three days of mourning A bunch of carefree schoolboys , joyfully playing cricket is always a happy sight to come across. But playing cricket on […]

With its focus on politicians and VIPs (at the cost of the ordinary people), the Sindh Police has steadily withdrawn and lost its credibility. The vacuum […]

For a population of 2.5 million people, Toronto libraries have a total of 7.5 million books, and another 3.5 million items, including magazines, CDs and videos. […]

Truant teachers, students and schools The voice at the other end was unfamiliar, crisp and not interested in inanities or introductions. It came straight to the […]