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Land Grabbers

Land grabbers

Some business ventures need a special environment to prosper. Land-grabbing is one such undertaking for which our country’s land seems fertile. This venture has now acquired the status of a…

QAU’s land grabbed — again

CIVILISED countries meticulously adhere to rule of law and hold public property sacred. They also treasure education institutions, particularly their better ones. On the other hand, morally and culturally backward…

QAU’s land is PTI’s litmus test

PAKISTAN’S powerful political class has used all possible means, extreme violence included, to enhance its personal wealth and interests. Theft of public lands must therefore count among relatively minor sins.…

Land Grab At QAU — Again

Land grab at QAU — again

On the campus of Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) — Pakistan’s premier public university — stands a large, ornate palace with manicured lawns and parked SUVs, protected by menacing guards and dogs.…

Flood of questions

WATER submerges the land but throws up questions. We are paying the price for ignoring them in 2010. We can ignore them again and pay an even higher price later.…

Stagflation silence

AS the PDM government and its khaki patrons propagate investor-friendly gimmicks like the Special Investment Facilita­tion Council (SIFC) in the name of econom­ic revival, the working class is being pushed closer to…

Why bash the elite?

ELITE-BASHING is Pakistan’s newest sport. As the country stares into the default abyss, the ubiquitous phrase — ‘elite state capture’ — putati­vely explains all that has gone awry. Fat-cats are…

The street speaks

PAKISTAN’S game of thrones continues to prove that truth is stranger than fiction. After 48 hours of unrest following Imran Khan’s forcible arrest by Rangers personnel on the premises of…

Unsafe streets

Rising crime in Pakistan seems to be threatening the social fabric of Pakistani society. Some argue that while street crimes get more attention in the media, other crimes remain ignored.…

Where Imran went wrong

After holding a mammoth gathering in Lahore in 2011, former prime minister Imran Khan had created an impression that his party believed in a revolutionary political ideology that would transform…