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March 29, 2019
Our reclusive Information Commissions Were the Federal and the Sindh Provincial Access to Information Acts hastily churned out, only as a ‘public relations’ exercise? The truth […]
March 29, 2019
The Right to ‘No’ “Democratic progress requires the ready availability of true and complete information. To act otherwise is to give way to despotic secrecy.” […]
March 29, 2019
Mr. Zulfiqar Ali Shah, 12 March 2019 Secretary, (G.A), SGA&CD Department Room no. 217, 2nd floor, New Sindh Secretariat building. Kamal Ata Turk Road, Karachi, Ph: […]
March 29, 2019
The Suppression of Information Suppression of information has always been high on the list of every government’s priorities. After all, information is an […]
March 29, 2019
Federal Secretary Aviation 6 Feb. 2019 Aviation Division, Cabinet Secretariat. PIA Building 2nd Floor, Blue Area, Islamabad, Ph: 051- 9244249-9244140, 9244423 Dear Sir, […]
March 29, 2019
Our right to know About the same time as Secretary Clinton and other powerful members of the ‘Company Bahadur’ were landing at Islamabad airport […]
March 29, 2019
The right to know In a country with no formal mechanisms for obtaining correct and factual information, the reliability of any piece of information […]
March 29, 2019
Well done Punjab Information Commission Unnoticed by most Pakistanis, an absolutely brilliant and outstanding event took place on Friday, 24th October 2014. In a system often […]
March 29, 2019
Mr. Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, November 1, 2012 Hon’ble Chief Justice of Pakistan, Supreme Court of Pakistan, Constitution Avenue, Islamabad. Your Honour, Sub: Petition […]
March 29, 2019
Alexander in Porous land When Alexander visited the subcontinent for the second time, he came minus his army. He was told that the brave King Porus […]
March 29, 2019
At war with itself Never before has a nuclear state been invaded twice in the same month. First by the foreign and […]
March 29, 2019
Aviation security and Parliamentarians This week I recorded my 75th un-actioned complaint in the Civil Aviation Authority’s complaint register. Spread over last 10 years these complaints […]
March 29, 2019
Can another ‘Peshawar’ be averted ? Naeem Sadiq The News 27 Dec. 2014 The answer to this question may lie in the half- hearted, knee-jerk and ‘public- consumption’ […]
March 29, 2019
Cars, crimes and driving licenses. 2015 will go down in history as a year in which the Sindh Police publicly declared that driving licenses were […]
March 29, 2019
Crime and fake number plates Naeem Sadiq Express Tribune June 13, 2013 Imagine a country where ‘Jaali’ degrees, bogus votes, fake vehicle number […]
March 29, 2019
Deweaponisation – our only option “Violence — and the threat of it — is a pre-political manner of communication and control, characteristic of undemocratic organizations […]
March 29, 2019
Is de-weaponisation possible within the existing laws? Our war on terror is much like trying to fill a bucket without first plugging its numerous holes. Instead […]
March 29, 2019
De-weaponisation and de-radicalisation https://tribune.com.pk/story/1927428/6-de-weaponisation-de-radicalisation/ As ‘Citizens Against Weapons’, we welcome the government’s decision to put a conclusive end to all banned, extremist […]
March 29, 2019
Deweaponisation – myths and realities The recent ‘deweaponisation’ ads by the Sindh government provide a classic case study of how one could ‘appear’ to be […]
March 29, 2019
Fake gun licenses Despite its critical and burgeoning challenges of militancy, Pakistan holds on to a gun licensing system based exclusively on missing records, fake […]