Governance Reforms
March 31, 2019
Turning Pakistan around Naeem Sadiq & Q. Isa Daudpota If you want numbers and statistics, read the Carnegie Endowment reports or the Foreign Policy Institute’s Failed […]
March 31, 2019
Urgently Wanted : Federal Ministers The Federal cabinet, currently operating with a small team of sixty one members, urgently requires experienced and dynamic new ministers to […]
March 31, 2019
Who will help the police? Naeem Sadiq Express Tribune February 10, 2014 27 policemen were killed in Karachi in the first month of this year. Another […]
March 31, 2019
Mr. Justice Maqbool Baqar 27 January 2015 Chief Justice, Sindh High Court Request for taking Suo Moto notice Your Honour, In September 2009, two Karachi citizens […]
March 31, 2019
Why Raymonds will continue to happen Pakistan’s ‘izzat’ and ‘ghairat’ came calling once again on the afternoon of 16th March 2011. The chartered aeroplane carrying Raymond […]
April 1, 2019
IN December 2016, I had filed a constitutional petition in the Supreme Court of Pakistan, praying for the appointment of a commission to probe whether people […]
April 1, 2019
LAST month, the tragic death of six workers at an under-construction site in Karachi raised alarm bells about the prevalence of inhumane labour practices in the […]
April 2, 2019
Our militant elite As members of “Citizens for Equal Rights”, we advocate respect, dignity, protection and equal rights for all citizens, regardless of their economic or […]
April 12, 2019
Why the NAP may keep napping. On March 28, 2019, the government, perhaps for the nth time, declared its unshaken resolve and its foremost priority to […]
May 1, 2019
Protecting the weak and the vulnerable Is there a relationship between the way a society treats its animals and the attitude it shows towards its […]
May 30, 2019
Building the missing child protection system “Tortured, beaten, boiling water thrown on her body and salt poured on her freshly bleeding wounds”, is how the TV […]
June 3, 2019
The pointless toy-gun notifications On June 10, 2017, the Sindh Government issued a notification to ban the sale of toy guns for a period of two […]
June 11, 2019
Community-based child protection Seven decades of noticeably worsening record of child abuse ought to have convinced us to either reform or replace our dysfunctional child protection […]
June 17, 2019
Who will find the missing child The pain and the agony of the parents of the five year old girl, missing since last 2 days, […]
August 10, 2019
Sindh vehicle woes https://tribune.com.pk/story/2032105/6-sindh-vehicle-woes/ Having bought and registered a new car two years back, I still drive with a temporary, stencilled, tin number plate. The Sindh […]
September 1, 2019
Can Pakistan make the ‘great escape’ One cannot continue to stand at crossroads for 72 years. There ought to be a time to settle down, to […]
September 24, 2019
Inspired by the necropolis of Chowkandi and Makli, The Sindh government has done well in creating an equally distinguished graveyard of Commissions and Authorities. These deceased […]
October 5, 2019
At 5:24 pm on 30th Sept. 2019, Pakistan’s population was 217,641,492. It would be a few hundred thousand more by the time this article appears in […]
October 19, 2019
Syed Murad Ali Shah, 18 October 2019 Chief Minister Sindh Dear Sir, Appeal to resurrect dysfunctional and invisible Sindh Right to Information Commission and Sindh Public […]
October 19, 2019
Accountability and transparency are the two key pillars of democracy and good governance. Sadly, these two aspects have been hugely compromised by the absence and dysfunctionality […]