Issue
March 27, 2019
The spurious law makers Of the many gifts given to the nation by the 2002 parliament, there were some 60 odd fake degree holders […]
March 27, 2019
Voting from home Naeem Sadiq The News, Feb.14, 2017 https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/186138-Voting-from-home In 1997, David Wolf became the first human to vote from space. This was made possible by Rule 81.35 […]
March 27, 2019
What is an error-free voter list? Naeem Sadiq The News , Thursday, October 11, 2012 Pakistan is rapidly heading for another electoral disaster. It continues to retain […]
March 27, 2019
Will Pakistan use EVMs for the 2007 elections? For many million Indians, who had never switched on a light bulb in their lives, pressing […]
March 27, 2019
Bureaucracy-generated carbon footprint “Your passport has not arrived. You need to come back another day”, says the utterly remorseless Passport Office clerk in a matter-of-fact tone. […]
March 27, 2019
Citizen Anonymous Reading a book, sipping coffee, sitting under a gazebo enjoying the soothing sunshine of a reluctantly receding winter in one of the many […]
March 27, 2019
Citizens, Sepa and sewage Dawn 10 Jan 2008, http://www.dawn.com/2009/01/10/ed.htm “KARACHI’s sewage disposal problem is a reality which cuts across sectors, affecting the whole […]
March 27, 2019
Cycling – a missing component of Karachi’s development Bicycle, the most energy-efficient form of transport ever devised. It doesn’t emit pollution, it runs on renewable […]
March 27, 2019
Environmental plunder and the right to know The ancient Romans had foreseen that one day there will be an Islamic Republic, whose rulers will be hell-bent […]
March 27, 2019
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 rate […]
March 27, 2019
Hill resort – on a downhill slide With each passing kilometre of the 34 KM journey from Abbotabad to Nathiagali, one can see, smell and […]
March 27, 2019
Justice for Houbara Bustards By the time this article appears in the press, some one thousand Houbara Bustards would have been officially annihilated by our […]
March 27, 2019
K-Electric and Net Metering? India has an ambitious plan to boost its clean energy capacity to 175 Gigawatt by 2022 and will invest Rs.127 billion […]
March 27, 2019
Karachi 2020 – a citizen’s perspective “Any city in the world can be improved in less than 3 years. It is not a question of […]
March 27, 2019
Stop killing for pleasure In complete violation of the judgments of the Honourable Supreme Court and the two High Courts, several Mid Eastern Shaikhs, supposedly the […]
March 27, 2019
Sinister sale of Saiful-Maluk For years the eco-system of Balochistan has been mercilessly plundered by bandits from rich Middle Eastern states. Trampling upon large tracts […]
March 27, 2019
Lessons for Pakistani mayors – who destroyed even the existing infrastructure and pushed their cities back in time by decades. “Why do you always ask me […]
March 27, 2019
McDonald Ka Pakistan Pakistan has much to be proud of. It is therefore strange that it places so much emphasis on displaying missiles and McDonald’s restaurants, […]
March 27, 2019
Noise levels I am fortunate to be living in a spiritually blessed area. There are five mosques, each located within half to one kilometer of […]