Smokescreen in southern Punjab
Back in May the Punjab Assembly unanimously carried a resolution hailing anti-terror operations in the province. On paper, the numbers look impressive: 10,000 intelligence-based operations have been carried out across…
What’s up at KESC?
If you’ve been paying attention lately, you’ll notice a campaign is under way to lionize the former CEO and current board chairman of the Karachi Electric Supply Company — Tabish…
KESC bashing
The Senate Committee on Water and Power thinks it’s a great idea for the government to renationalise the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC). Not only that, they think it would…
KESC leads with corporate flood relief initiatives
The flood situation in Pakistan has developed into a crisis of gigantic proportions, leaving almost one-fifth of the country under water. Present estimates indicate that over two thousand people have…
Reduced gas supply to KESC
Currently, KESC has been forced to carry out increased loadshedding in Karachi due to unjust and inadequate allocation of low cost generation fuel, that is natural gas. This is a…
Beyond aid dependency
Twelve years ago, when I chose to work in Pakistan’s development sector, it was not simply a career move but a commitment to human dignity, social progress and equity. I…
Kunal Kamra’s lonely furrow
CREATIVE ways abound to resist oppression be it from one’s own state or a foreign occupation power; but to defeat or vacate the menace is another ballgame. Cinema, theatre, dance,…
KE: load-shedding challenge
On January 15, Karachi residents and industrialists harshly criticized K-Electric during a public hearing at the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA), accusing the utility company of failing to provide…
Parts of a jigsaw
TO reassemble the origins of Pakistan, one needs time, money and luck. Collectors of deltiology (the study and collection of postcards) need all three to make sense of Pakistan’s jigsaw…
Structural reforms in IMF programme
The Staff Report on the new 37-month Extended Fund Facility by the IMF of $7 billion contains a number of structural benchmarks, along with their rationale and the date by…
