Accountability through tax law only solution
Corruption and accountability have been the main subjects of our social discourse for over 70 years. However, not a single case has ever been finalized. We had numerous plea bargains,…
Accountability in limbo
We have nothing to hide, we have nothing to worry about, everyone is accountable. With such loud claims, every stakeholder of the state publicly asserts “Zero Tolerance on Corruption”, yet…
Accountability in times of corruption
A systematic effort has been ongoing to generate a state of uncertainty in the country. The process accentuated in the wake of the delay in certifying the appointment of the…
Fear of unfair accountability
Pakistan’s public management and accountability system is perhaps on the verge of collapse. The system is breaking down with dysfunctional bureaucracy and institutions. Very few officers and institutions are willing…
Costs of misguided accountability
The ongoing heat on corruption and wrongdoings has put efficiency on the backburner. The stakeholder mindset – media, public, and government - is to focus on sensation, not substance. Public…
Coalition against accountability
Accountability is always for the others. This is a sentiment that is true for personal, professional and political spheres. It is so easy and natural to put others on the…
The fear of accountability
Accountability is something people do fear. Bureaucrats, politicians, businesspeople and others appear to be in the grip of this fear. Politicians are experiencing it for decades and for them it’s…
Accountability clichés
CLICHÉS and journalists go together like cream cheese and bagels. It truly is hard to separate the two. And at home in Pakistan, we journalists have our fair share of…
Accountability’s hall of mirrors
What is happening in Pakistan would be political entertainment, if only it were not so portentous a threat to peace and social harmony. Put your ear to the ground and…
Rebuilding parliamentary accountability
The entire edifice of accountability through parliamentary oversight of the Public Accounts Committees (PACs) has crumbled owing to the serious shortcomings highlighted in my earlier article on this subject (‘Accountability…
