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Between death and starvation   Naeem Sadiq The News 15 Sept 2012 People do not go to work to be blown into smithereens by ill-maintained boilers […]

By the grace of God   (English translation) by Saadat Hasan Manto   One must admit that God has been immensely gracious.  During that bygone era of […]

Citizens For Equal Rights Director General Civil Aviation Authority, Headquarters Civil Aviation Authority,                                                          6 Feb. 2019 Terminal 1 Building, Karachi Airport, Tel: +9221.99071111 support@caapakistan.com.pk   Dear Sir,  […]

Chief Information Commissioner                                                      28 Feb 2019 Information Services Academy Zero Point, Islamabad Ph: (051) 9252192   Dear Sir,   Failure to respond to ‘request for  information’ […]

  Federal Secretary Aviation                                                                       6 Feb. 2019 Aviation Division, Cabinet Secretariat. PIA Building 2nd Floor, Blue Area, Islamabad, Ph: 051- 9244249-9244140,  9244423   Dear Sir,      […]

  The displaced vs the well placed people of Pakistan “The twins were born as the mother desperately struggled with the pangs of pain, the sound […]

  Our dependency syndrome In 2016, a   Chinese company was awarded a contract for garbage collection in the districts South and East of Karachi at the […]

June 11, 2006 Governor State Bank of Pakistan Dear Governor,   Is a citizen’s  Faith and  Fiqah any concern of a Bank ?   Thank you […]

Jinnah and the janitors Sleeps here, in his monumental final resting place, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan’s  founder,  first Governor General,  a distinguished lawyer, an  eminent politician […]

  Pressure to drop the charges   Seven years down the road Mukhtar Mai  continues to suffer the agony and trauma inflicted upon her by the  […]

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 […]

The News Endpiece Of faith, fiqh and banks Naeem Sadiq Pakistan is perhaps the only country in the world where banks also assume responsibility for citizens’ […]

                                                          Ordinary citizens   To hell with environmental assessments and impacts. The rich and the powerful urgently need more exclusive and posh housing locations, millennium malls, […]

Patronage  of  Rape   Pakistan’s bravest woman finally lost the battle that she single-handedly fought with the rest of Pakistan.  Eight years and 10 months down […]

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 […]

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 […]

Relief for ordinary citizens   Have you ever seen an MNA or a minister, merrily engaged  in responding to the call of nature (big or small), […]

   Sanitary posts for Non-Muslims? As a citizen, I wish to protest against a recent newspaper ad by the Sindh Institute of Ophthalmology Hyderabad that specifies […]

Seven minutes with a swindler   I saw him coming towards me as I stopped my car at the traffic light. It was 2.30pm on Wednesday, […]

Seven minutes with the  Saint   Through the narrow, winding and crowded streets of Mithadar, fascinated by the colours and smells of the wholesale market, we […]