Holding businessmen accountable
In only one month, we have seen three large-scale fires killing more than 40 people and injuring dozens more in or near Karachi. The first example is the Gadani ship…
Accountability across the board – II
In his address to the Constituent Assembly on 11th August 1947, the Quaid said that "Jobbery, graft nepotism and bribe has to be put down with iron hand". His vision…
Hold on tight
AS one with vivid memories of Pakistan of the 1960s, one is nervous about today’s Pakistan. While ‘development and progress’ have been our leaders’ buzzwords, their definition and implementation have…
Finance Bill 2013: Some half-hearted positive steps
Fiscal laws are difficult to implement and to be accepted for they work towards extraction of money, albeit for the betterment of society. As it is said "Tax is the…
From rags to riches
Forbes has published its list of ‘World Billionaires ranking for 2024’. The much touted is the list of 200 richest people of the world. The billionaires across the globe compete…
From colonial legacy to digital era
Are the election results of the 2024 election influenced by external forces and fail to accurately reflect the will of the people? Social media platforms are inundated with comments and…
Rotting from the bottom too
There is this thought that I have recycled in my columns a few times. And I remember expounding on it a bit in an article in the now defunct news…
At crossroads
Perhaps, no reader will be surprised with the caption of this piece. This heading has acquired the status of a ‘title’ for our beloved country. We were in 1947 at…
The ‘One Per Cent Republic’
IN a Tedx talk I gave last year, I argued that Pakistan shouldn’t be called the Islamic Republic but rather the One Per Cent Republic. Opportunities, power and wealth here…
Terrorism financing in Pakistan
Terrorism is a contested term -- difficult to define, and a cause of contention in academics and policymaking for years. There is no universal definition of terrorism. According to the…
