Issue

October 14, 2021

The cruelty and inhumanity that we extend

  A Mirror of Our Cruelty and Inhumanity The unlawful wages and treatment extended to the  contracted or third party sanitary workers – is a direct  […]
October 17, 2021

Non-Muslims only

Non-Muslims only At 11 PM, in the night between 3rd and 4th October 2021, Faisal Masih and Nadeem Masih of Metropolitan Corporation Sargodha, suffocated to death in the […]
October 23, 2021

Our Plunder : Protect Ratio

Our Plunder – Protect ratio. Rafia Zakaria in her recent book “Against white feminism – notes on disruption,” describes a $400 million US aid program to […]
November 11, 2021

Heal your hospital before you heal your patients

Dr, Shahid Rasul, Director, Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Centre, Karachi (JPMC)   Salam and Respects. Thank you for your response and request for help. The issue […]
November 13, 2021

TTP Talks : Does Pakistan know what it is getting into?

TTP talks  While eagerly extending its support and cordiality towards Afghanistan, should Pakistan not take a more measured and long term view of the relations between […]
December 2, 2021

Bribe at every intersection

Dear IG Police Sindh, I apologise for writing to you second time this week. The last letter was out of a deep sense of regret at […]
January 1, 2022

Manufacturing poverty

Manufacturing Poverty https://tribune.com.pk/story/2335495/manufacturing-poverty Poverty is neither ordained nor an in-built characteristic of nature. It is an artificially and cruelly fabricated curse to enable the rich to […]
January 10, 2022

FBR’s criminal collusion with the rich and powerful

DR. MUHAMMAD ASHFAQ AHMED CHAIRMAN FBR, FBR House, Opp. Supreme Court of Pakistan, Constitution Avenue, G-5, Islamabad. Dear Sir, Request for information under Federal Right for […]
January 17, 2022

Justice for Jokhio and the citizens’ demands

Nazim Jokhio, meltdown of justice and the Citizens’ demands. Nazim Jokhio is the first citizen of Pakistan to lay down his life to protect the endangered […]
January 30, 2022

Criminally exploited – janitors and guards of Pakistan

Continued exploitation of janitors and security guards Imagine a country where its own national institutions collude and conspire to torture and enslave the very citizens for […]
February 20, 2022

Hostage to guns and militias

Successive governments have promoted violence and militancy by legislating pro-gun laws. For the past two decades, Citizens Against Weapons, a citizens’ group, has been demanding that […]
March 6, 2022

Our three narratives

Narrative One. (What we preach) a. That the Peshawar mosque blast was a huge tragedy, b. that we are deeply saddened, c. that may God give […]
March 13, 2022

The rise and fall of CPLC

The rise and fall of CPLC It was a brilliant initiative of Governor (Justice) Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim to establish the Citizens-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) in March 1990.  […]
March 27, 2022

Eliminating child marriages

Eliminating Child Marriages On October 13, 2020, a 13-year-old Christian girl was kidnapped, forced to marry a 44-year-old man, made to convert to Islam and given […]
April 18, 2022

Child abuse – a “duty to report’

Child abuse — a ‘duty to report’ Millions of children are deliberately, unabashedly and publicly abused every day in Pakistan. They can be spotted begging on […]
April 30, 2022

Sinking in our own sewage – and the way out

 Sinking in our own sewage – and the way out.  In 1994 Istanbul was treating less than 15% of the sewage produced by its residents.   By […]
May 1, 2022

A citizen’s appeal

A citizen’s appeal : In a deeply divisive and polarized political environment, charged with hatred and hostility, I along with many other citizens of Pakistan, feel […]
May 14, 2022

Pampering the rich, pulverising the poor

Pampering the rich, pulverising the poor  A drug-like addiction to ‘foreign loans’ has buried Pakistan under a massive debt of $130 billion. Just the debt-servicing requires […]
May 17, 2022

Eliminate import of all Luxury goods.

Minister for Commerce, May 17, 2022 Block-A, 4th Floor, Pak Secretariat, Islamabad. Dear Sir, Urgent actions to eliminate import of all Luxury goods. As a citizen […]
May 20, 2022

How the rich and the powerful elite destroys Pakistan

How the rich and the powerful elite is responsible for destroying Pakistan, its economy and the lives of its ordinary citizens. This Asstt. Commissioner drives a […]