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Local governments

SPEAKING to the First Constituent Assembly in 1947, Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah outlined several duties for the government of Pakistan: maintain law and order, root out corruption, act against black…

Cooking a Pakistani chaos casserole

Today, in a journalistic coup that would make Woodward and Bernstein weep with envy, we bring you the coveted recipe that has kept a nation of 220 million perpetually teetering…

Pakistani politics’ enfant terrible

THE en masse resignation of PTI MNAs, except for the dissidents, from the National Assembly is not surprising. It is in character with former prime minister Imran Khan’s maverick style of politics.…

Publishing Pakistani fiction

IF you happen to be a Pakistani writer, particularly a writer of fiction, you are out of luck. As a recent discussion I had on the topic with several other…

How to right-size the government

The latest buzzword these days is ‘rightsizing’ the government. This usually points to calls for reforms aiming to reduce government expenses and the budget deficit. But rightsizing or reforms is…

Properties of Pakistanis in Dubai

In 2019 when I was the Chairman of Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) I asked my Director General International Taxation to collect the data of persons holding ‘Iqamas’ of the…

Ordinary Pakistanis are not citizens

It has been an eventful week, with more than its just share of tragedies. While the genocidal Israeli war on the Palestinians continues with ferocious horror, the news of Iranian…

The last Pakistani

MANI Shankar Aiyar is the last Pakistani left in India. It is his ‘second favourite country’. It was once an option available to millions of Indian Muslims. Since 1947, Indian…