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Occupational safety

ONE of the most neglected areas of governance in Pakistan is that of inspection and monitoring of the labour force employed in hazardous occupations. The highest incidence of injuries occurs…

Healthcare Hazard

Healthcare hazard

Hwalthcare acquired infection (HAI) is on the rise worldwide. This is an infection acquired by a patient in a hospital or other healthcare facility, meaning that the HAI was not…

Adieu Khaled Ahmed!

My friend, Editor, journalist of 40 years standing, Khaled Ahmed passed away on Sunday night, November 17, 2024. He had been ill with an array of old age afflictions for…

A plethora of issues

Normally one tries to focus on one critical issue that appears to be central when sitting down to pen these columns. However, such is the state of things in Pakistan…

The unravelling of Imran?

As I waited for our luggage at the baggage carousel of the Karachi airport earlier this week, getting readjusted to local disorder, someone put his hand on my shoulder. “I…

What the worker says

The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) is an area where one would expect much better labour laws and working conditions compared to other parts of the country. Sadly, this is not…

Safety rules

By a 6 to 3 vote, with liberal justices in dissent, the Supreme Court yesterday from enforcing a vaccine-or-testing mandate for large employers. (The court upheld a more modest mandate…

Acting on the plan

AN ambitious five-year National Action Plan for Business and Human Rights has been proposed by the federal human rights ministry. It stipulates the process whereby businesses across Pakistan will be…

Justice Isa and the Bigger Picture

In Pakistan, the Money Trail (™) is in the eyes of the beholder. One of several pseudo-legal terms to have crept into common currency, post-Panama, ‘money trail’ is the loose…