What about the DMG?
In the haze of the 18th Amendment’s implementation, and the hullabaloo over the Higher Education Commission, some important things are entirely missing from the national discourse. Many advocates of a…
PTI: forgotten promises
People of Pakistan in general and businessmen in particular are quite disillusioned with the performance of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) after seeing that prices of items of daily use (food, medicines,…
Reforming the civil service
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…
Accounting for change
THE resistance to change in Pakistan is an old problem but it wears a new face every few years. These days the resistance to change is wearing the face of…
Public Mis-service Inc
THROUGHOUT my profession, I have closely engaged with government ministries, agencies and departments, both at the local and federal levels. In my younger days, the calling of the public services…
Costs of calcification
If you don’t understand something you cannot change it. Pakistanis are constantly bombarded with news that prompts a sense of utter helplessness and a feeling that state and society are…
Standing on its own feet
ACCORDING to the Economic Affairs Division (EAD), as of June 30, 2022, the total external public debt of Pakistan stood at $88.8 billion. Out of this, the debt owed to…
Balochistan’s challenge
Balochistan is the largest province of Pakistan by area, with a population of only 12.34 million. As a result, while the annual budgets of the other three provinces are in…
Quest for justice
THERE comes a time in the life of nations when citizens start to feel that the social contract between them and the state is on the verge of collapse. What…
Pakistan’s civil service dilemma
By the time you finish reading this article, the veil shrouding Pakistan’s administrative ineptitude will be lifted, revealing the true architects of the nation’s woes – the District Management Group…
