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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…

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…

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…

FIA and accountability

Since the enactment of PECA, numerous cases have been lodged under it and there has been a mixed response of courts while treating cases involving cybercrimes. Though the courts generally…

Courts for businesses

The World Bank’s Doing Business Report (2019) ranked Pakistan at 156 out of 190 economies on the ‘enforcing contracts’ indicator, based on the cost and quality of judicial processes, and…

Imploding accountability

A strange breeze is blowing across the landscape, signalling the advent of a phase which may have no precedence in the pages of history. More and more constituents of the…

On accountability

It is part of our faith that, while everyone will be rewarded for his/her good deeds, we will also be held accountable for our selective punitive actions against our political…

The accountability syndrome

The doctrine of separation of powers demands that the legislature, executive and the judiciary must work within their boundaries. In Pakistan, though, we see interventions from everywhere in every aspect…