Blinken to Saudi as window shrinks on Middle East mega-deal
Washington’s top diplomat will travel to Saudi Arabia on Sunday as the deadline approaches on a landmark — and, analysts say, long-shot — deal that would see the kingdom recognise…
Countering financial crimes
In recent days, Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has taken many steps to enforce internal accountability mechanism to uproot corruption/malpractices within the organisation. The steps like making Chief Commissioners as…
Check-posts against white collar crimes
First, the medicine prices went through the roof. Next, it was the turn of Atta (wheat flour) and sugar prices, followed by “artificial shortage” of oil at a time when…
White collar crimes
The National Accountability Bureau Ordinance (NABO) under Section 5 describes a "public office holder' as an individual holding, or have held, an office or post in the service of Pakistan…
Irresponsibility – the new lifestyle?
Given the backdrop of MQM's tough accountability for its (vocally denied) involvement in street and mega crimes, the return of Mustafa Kamal - a dejected former MQM leader - to…
Politicking: what’s its cost?
Pakistan today is a country wherein each day begins with revelations of bad governance that shock its citizens. Yet the country's in-power politicians are focused only one thing: holding on…
The writing on the wall
As more cases of mega corruption surface- a daily affair now- the PML-N regime feels more uncertain about its continuation in power but, instead of showing signs of support for…
The ‘beyond reproach’ elite
The question that bothers all humans is whether anyone of them can claim immunity. Unless we deny the cosmic reality- to err is human - none can claim having unquestionable…
NAB, NRO and the rest
Once again, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is under attack for not pursuing to their logical end even those mega corruption cases that it registered beginning November 16, 1999 when…
Stark realities
The aim of economic strategies should be to spread prosperity far and wide; failure in doing so is unforgivable. But Pakistan's politicians reflect no sense of this obligation each time…
