Decorating Karachi
IN a recent meeting, Sindh’s caretaker chief minister expressed his resolve to ‘beautify’ Karachi. Addressing bureaucrats, heads of civic agencies and architects, he spoke about the poor state of the…
Bilawal’s plan for Karachi
The metropolitan city of Karachi – also known as the city of lights – with its multilingual demography holds key strategic importance in terms of trade, business, education and health.…
MQM(P)-PSP squabble
The recriminations that followed last week's press conference by PSP chief Mustafa Kamal in the presence of MQM-Pakistan leader Farooq Sattar continue with some outsiders jumping in to the fray on the…
Words, words, words
“A word is dead Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day.” — Emily Dickinson A FRIEND recently commented that his father who passed away just a…
Such relentless misgovernance
In my column on Jan 1, I asked: “What has the PTI done for Pakistan during its time in power?” My thesis was that after the hype created by the…
The Karachi package
The much-vaunted Karachi Transformation Package of Rs1100 billion has been announced by the federal government. The package is aimed at addressing the inveterate problems of the city. The recent rain…
Competitions that will shape KTP
The Karachi Transformation Plan (KTP) is an impressive allocation of financial resources and top-line political will in favour of a transformed Karachi. But very much like Pakistan’s Covid-19 miracle, it…
Games some people play
Although electioneering season has not been officially or formally declared open, the political landscape increasingly resembles a period leading up to next year's scheduled general elections. Political rallies, engineered hastily…
Why take selective notice of corruption?
Three major parties have cried foul at the Senate election results; not without reason, though. In Punjab, the ruling PML-N's stronghold, despite being short of the necessary number of votes…
Senate elections and after
The dust had barely settled on the Senate elections on the 52 seats of the retiring members or half the house when the results indicated that the rumours of horse-trading…
