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March 30, 2019
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 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 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 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 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
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 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 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 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 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 – 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’ 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 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’ By Naeem Sadiq One ought to be suspicious when building a ‘model’ is proposed as a solution to every complex institutional problem. […]
March 30, 2019
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 […]
March 30, 2019
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 […]
March 30, 2019
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 […]
March 30, 2019
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 […]
March 30, 2019
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 […]
March 30, 2019
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 […]