‘The year of telecommunication’
Bell to Broadband is a Tale of Telecomm-unication. The beginning of modern telecommunications in the nineteenth century is marked by the invention of telephone by Alexander Graham Bell which initiated…
A food authority
State regulatory mechanisms in Pakistan currently extend to a range of critical commodities and services, such as drugs, electricity, oil, gas, telecommunications, media, aviation, money and chemicals, which are governed…
Ministry of Information Technology & Telecommunication: Rationalisation of institutions – III
There is a need to carry out due diligence and rationalisation of all ministries under the federal government and their many subsidiaries with the objective of ensuring that the public…
Vicious cycle
THE dual issue of the presence and use of draconian laws against political opponents continues, cementing the impression of weak rule of law, violation of due process and the vengeance…
Fully inclusive financial system
One of the mistakes multinational companies make is to look at countries as either 'developed' or 'developing', and then try to shoehorn a product or solution into that country that…
Where the customer doesn’t come first
Consumers in Pakistan have few rights, if any. And those codified in law are hardly implemented by service providers. Take the case of the telecom industry where the state-run regulator,…
The great firewall of Pakistan
The Pakistan government’s quest for a social media that is free of any dissent or criticism of state institutions and contains little or no support for a particular politician and…
Is our nervous system in disarray?
“We are the hollow men, we are the stuffed men, leaning together, headpiece filled with straw,” lamented T S Eliot: the ‘hollowness’ we have attained by embracing ‘irrationality’ through and…
Digital check-post
THERE has been no let-up in the woes of digital users in Pakistan as the internet continues to operate at a snail’s pace. To add insult to injury, at a…
The privacy myth
A RECENT order by the Islamabad High Court (IHC) in the audio leaks case now establishes on record what was surmised all along: no warrant has ever been sought under the Investigation…
