Elites, legislators and squanderers
Pakistan is ruled and controlled by predatory elites in whose hands power and wealth are concentrated. This has been proved in the recent election of 54 members of Senate where…
Judges as legislators
Under our constitution, parliament legislates, the executive runs the government of the day and the judges decide when either of the other two has overstepped its domain. The power of…
To potential legislators
In a democratic society, the stance of the contenders for the country’s supreme legislative body should be driven by the issues that the nation is facing. The primary qualification of…
Panama Leaks and legislators
Much before Bahamas Leaks and Panama Leaks, we cited in these columns many cases of unlawful capital outflows, tax avoidance and corruption by public officeholders and others. However, the National…
Tax evasion and legislators
Allegation of the Federal Information Minister in a press conference on November 27, 2014 that Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Imran Khan, and other prominent leaders of his party are "tax…
Legislators and tax delinquency
The recently-published tax directory of legislators not only sadly reflects on the financial affairs of majority of the senators and members of national and provincial assemblies but also raises serious…
Judges as legislators
In ‘Blink’ Malcom Gladwell suggests that human beings generally reach decisions intuitively and instantly upon being confronted with the need to reach them and then come up with explanations rationalising…
Justice denied to justice buried
The Supreme Court of Pakistan during the last many days has dismissed a large number of leaves to appeal, mainly filed by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR). It has…
Senators split over regulating private medical college fees
As the Senate Standing Committee on Health continued deliberating “exorbitant tuition fees” of private medical and dental colleges, some legislators, including the committee’s chairman, ministry officials and Pakistan Medical and…
Lawmakers’ pay
A STORM of protest led by no less a person than the prime minister had engulfed the country after Punjab’s provincial assembly passed a bill on March 13 for increasing…
