Pakistani experts from various fields said on Wednesday that the role of the federal government and civil society is critical to address climate change issues direly impacting the economy, society,…
BUREAUCRATIC reforms have become essential, as a critical constraint today on the effective functioning of government is the budgetary and business cost of its overextended mandate. Bureaucrats claim to be…
The term ‘military deployment in aid of civil power’ refers to the use of armed forces to assist civil authorities in special circumstances when local or federal law enforcement agencies…
IN the heart of Vienna lies a flourishing Pakistani restaurant that caters to thousands of tourists and locals. The owner has credited much of the restaurant’s success to an enabling…
PAKISTAN’S polity is fractured. Politicians are not willing to unlock horns; the economy is slipping down a steep slope; and terrorist forces are resurging. Some analysts view this situation as…
FLOODS are perhaps as old as time. They have always figured very largely in the human imagination primarily because of the sheer magnitude of the death and destruction they visit…
LOCAL government is being talked about as one of the possible ‘solutions’ to the heightened political and economic turbulence in the country. LG is attractive in theory, promising better service…
TO continue to call Pakistan a functioning democracy is farcical given the politicians’ lack of control on matters they have the constitutional mandate to decide on. Though nothing new, it…
As a physician specializing in addiction, Dr. Jasmeet Bains, the first Sikh American elected to the California assembly, was used to risky situations. Even so, Bains said she was shocked…
In his very first speech after taking over the mantle in 1971 of what remained of Jinnah’s Pakistan, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto used healing words; “I have come over to pick…
