Power blackout 2021: inquiry report
On 9th January 2021, 23:40hrs, a major power blackout occurred which engulfed almost entire Pakistan, including Karachi, Lahore, Multan and Islamabad. It took 22 hours to bring electricity back into…
Inquiry reports
In many a postcolonial country, leaders have adopted institutions inherited from the British while also denuding them of their soul and spirit — among them, inquiries into cases of gross…
Politics post-poll inquiry report
The Supreme Court commission inquiring into the vote rigging allegations has done its job in a largely satisfactory manner. According to it, the general elections 2013 were held in accordance…
Critical appraisal of SBP report
The State Bank of Pakistan’s (SBP) report for the first half of the current financial year reiterated its unconditional support for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme conditions – a…
Sugar inquiry
The sugar inquiry report did not focus on the structural problems creating the ‘economic rents’. Rather the energies are expended on chasing the rentiers. And the media eyes are on…
The oil report
The Oil Inquiry Commission was formed by the Lahore High Court in the wake of the oil crisis which occurred last June. Its report has been submitted and made public.…
Report card time
A year of three halves, dominated by three men; it’s report card time again. And a middling year it was for all three. Let’s begin with the chap who has…
A damning report
There are no winners in Justice Qazi Faez Isa’s one-man commission report into the Aug 8 attack on Quetta’s Civil Hospital. The interior ministry, intelligence agencies, FC, provincial government, provincial…
Inquiry threat into Australian iron ore industry
The huge iron ore industry in Australia faces the threat of a parliamentary inquiry amid claims the world's biggest miners, including BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, are flooding the market…
The truth about the Abbottabad Commission report
The Commission to inquire into the US military operation in Abbottabad that killed Osama bin Laden in May 2011 was formed in response to a popular demand that the full…
