What happens when you dissolve an assembly?
PTI Chairman Imran Khan has announced the dissolution of the Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assemblies as a tactic to put pressure on the government and the powerful quarters to force…
Federal govt must not fuel provincialism
In 1997 general elections PML-N won a two third majority in parliament bagging 137 seats with PPP trailing with 18 seats. This unprecedented heavy mandate ended well before the end…
Need for provincial asset management companies
During the budget season, there is immense activity in the federal and provincial financial circles attempting to reflect higher revenues and justifying expenditures. Political and sectoral lobbying is at its…
Strengthening of provincial HECs demanded
Federation of All Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Association (FAPUASA) has demanded strengthening of provincial Higher Educations Commission (HECs) in the light of 18th Constitutional Amendment. In a joint statement issued…
Provincialising AJK
With the (s)election of Masood Khan as the president of Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK) on August 16, preceded by the elections for the legislative assembly last month, the façade…
Privatise or provincialise?
Wapda was unbundled in the 2000s to form generation companies (Gencos), distribution companies (Discos) and the NTDC (National Transmission Dispatch Company). Now, as the last step in the unbundling process,…
Parenthood and the state
The story is all too familiar in Pakistan; for far too long, we have witnessed the various manifestations of the unfair choices working parents are subjected to in the face…
Emergency provisions
WITH each passing day, the state of animosity between the PTI, along with the two provincial governments it controls, and the federal government, that is composed of a multiparty coalition,…
At the bottom of the totem pole
The visuals coming out of Pakistan over the last week were jarring and alarming. Uncertainty is reigning. In the face of the tyranny of the urgent, it seems like there…
Let next elected govt present budget
Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, unconditionally backed by Nawaz Sharif, the party supremo, as well as by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif (a man known to repeatedly defer to his brother’s decisions…
