Law’s makers and breakers
Democratic values are taking roots in Pakistan, as is evident from the recent successful completion of a democratic government, as also the role of the media, judiciary and civil society…
Re-build forward
It seems to be working. The unprecedented increase in fuel prices has forced some people to move away from private vehicles and switch to public transport, especially in cities like…
Karachi, the resilient city
Either Commissioner Karachi, the right honourable Iftikhar Shalwani, is grossly underworked, or is living on steroids. How else do you explain the enormous creativity, a child of hours of serious…
What is wrong with our ambulances?
In the absence of an effective healthcare system, it is only the bigger hospitals that people go to in an emergency. The failure of our state to provide emergency services…
Curious case of a professor’s accountability
The sight of an intellectual in chains is painful. Few days ago the social and electronic media went aghast at the visuals of a couple of high profile university professors…
Tax frauds, corruption & NAB
In majority tax frauds, the usual parties are the official(s) and the taxpayer(s). Cases where unilateral tax fraud is committed are rare such as using fictitious bank account(s) to obtain…
VIPs and the roads
President Mamoon Hussain wants to stay away from the roads of Karachi as much as possible in the larger public interest. The reason: he does not want Karachiites to suffer…
Curtailing due process
Even after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s signal for the speedy enactment of the amendments proposed in the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1997, it should be possible to ponder the consequences of…
Mirrors shown by India and UK! Articles 62, 63: Don’t falter Fakhru Bhai! 180 million are with you!
The hue and cry over Articles 62 and 63 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan never appears to quite die down. It rises in tandem in noise…
