The transparency gap
Pakistan’s healthcare sector faces a myriad of governance challenges. There is a weak regulatory enforcement mechanism allowing substandard medicines to be marketed. There is also a proliferation of inadequately trained…
Why transparency matters
Forty years and 4000 kilometres away, Nadya Pravyk gazed mesmerised at the ethereal, incandescent beam of light that shot up to the sky, ripping the heavens apart. And yet with…
Universities directed to take measures for transparency in MDCAT
Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) President Prof Dr Rizwan Taj has directed all universities to take complete measures to ensure that the upcoming Medical and Dental Colleges’ Admission Test…
Transparency, taxation & reforms
Macroeconomic conditions have improved over the course of the program. Growth of 2 percent is expected in FY24 given continued recovery in the second half of the fiscal year. The…
Transparency matters
On December 29, barely a week after calling for proposals for reforming judicial appointments and shortlisting eight significant areas on which proposals were sought from additional persons, the Judicial Commission…
Transparency and the RTI
Pakistan’s Right to Information (RTI) Act is playing an instrument role in generating information that can help hold the corrupt accountable for their actions. The Toshakhana case is one such…
Lack of transparency
The latest report on perceptions of corruption, released by the Berlin-based Transparency International, has – as it does each year – led to the release of angry words from both…
International arbitration: Pakistan’s recent woes
In the landmark case of Eckhardt, the (late) Justice Ajmal Mian cautioned that "...while dealing with an application ... in relation to a foreign arbitration clause like the one in…
Pakistan’s international rankings
Recent assessments by international agencies of Pakistan's relative position in South Asia generally place it at the bottom of the table, especially with regard to the rate of economic growth.…
Pakistan’s international rankings
Recent assessments by international agencies of Pakistan's relative position in South Asia generally place it at the bottom of the table, especially with regard to the rate of economic growth.…
