Say No To Weapons

A violence promoting notification https://www.dawn.com/news/1456594 Jan 10, 2019 As members of ‘Citizens Against Weapons’, we are deeply alarmed at the government’s recent SRO (1) / 2018 […]

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 […]

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 […]

    At war with itself     Never before has a  nuclear state been invaded twice in the same month. First by the foreign and […]

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 […]

  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’ […]

  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 […]

  Crime and fake number plates  Naeem Sadiq Express Tribune June 13, 2013     Imagine a country  where  ‘Jaali’  degrees, bogus  votes,  fake vehicle number […]

Deweaponisation –  our only option   “Violence — and the threat of it — is a pre-political manner of communication and control, characteristic of undemocratic organizations […]

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 […]

    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 […]

Deweaponisation – myths and realities   The recent  ‘deweaponisation’  ads  by the Sindh government provide a classic case study of how one could ‘appear’ to be […]

  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 […]

  gun licenses – an institutional fraud   One must appreciate the Punjab Home Minister for exposing the ugly truth that the government has been hiding […]