The Auditor General’s office on Wednesday raised alarm over the Higher Education Commission’s failure to recover more than Rs1.5 billion from scholarship defaulters. Calling it a critical matter, the issue…
The usual jargon was issued by the Prime Minister’s Office on 27, Sunday, after an inconclusive emergent meeting was called in the aftermath of violent street protests in several cities…
In the days after the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol, dozens of companies said they would suspend political donations to Republican lawmakers who had backed then-President Donald…
All public power is a sacred trust, which is to be exercised fairly, justly, honestly and in accordance with law-Supreme Court in Workers' Party Pakistan & Others v Federation of…
Mockery, death of democracy, dictatorship, authoritarianism – these are amongst a plenitude of other terms that have been used to describe the 11th. parliamentary election in Bangladesh which took place…
A serious issue raised in the media recently related to whether a parliamentary standing committee should have discussed a demonstration of push-ups by the national cricket team. But before we…
Report of the Auditor General of Pakistan on the Punjab government accounts for audit year 2013-14 make quite interesting, alarming as well as concerning reading to say the least. Besides…
These three institutions form the core pillars of the state’s financial accountability architecture, yet over the years, they have become relics of a colonial design – operating through outdated processes,…
The recent controversy over the tabling of Pakistan’s 2024–25 audit reports triggered a crucial debate about the relationship between parliament and the auditor general and the overall relevance of government…
Once, Pakistan’s bureaucracy stood as a pillar of governance in the sixties, entrusted with the nation’s future. Today, that edifice is crumbling—its foundations weakened by decades of decay. A recent…
